Liz Theoharis and Sam Theoharis

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. Sam Theoharis is the Director of Communications for the Kairos Center with a background in data communication, public policy research, social media management, and decarceral community organizing. Prior to working for Kairos, Sam worked as a research associate at Brown University’s Justice Policy Lab studying the racial and political economy of prison proliferation and at Stop Torture Rhode Island organizing students to advocate for an end to solitary confinement. Sam is also a hobbyist editor/ghostwriter with a distance running habit.