Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back

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Liz Theoharis, a TomDispatch regular, is a theologian, ordained minister, and anti-poverty activist. Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, she is the co-author of the new book You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty and author of Always With Us? What Jesus Really Said About the Poor. Follow her on BlueSky at @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org. Noam Sandweiss-Back, born in Jerusalem and raised in New Jersey, is an organizer and writer. He has spent a decade organizing among the poor and dispossessed, including with the Kairos Center and the Poor People’s Campaign. He is the co-author of You Only Get What You're Organized to Take: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty.

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