Author Talk | You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take

Rev. Dr Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back in conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Join two leading anti-poverty organizers to discuss the largely untold story of the movement to end poverty, led by the poor themselves. Their book “should be read by anyone who wants to know how we can not only save democracy but finally achieve what I call a democracy worth saving.”  (William J. Barber II)

The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary and Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and teaches at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Noam Sandweiss-Back was the Director of Partnerships for the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. He now works with the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice on a special project to counter the power of Christian nationalism.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a Professor in the Department of African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by the University of North Carolina Press, a semi-finalist for a National Book Award for nonfiction and a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer in History.