Liz Theoharis

The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis is the Co-Director of the Kairos Center and a Founder and the Coordinator of the Poverty Initiative at . She has spent the past two decades organizing amongst the poor in the United States, working with and advising grassroots organizations. She is an ordained minister in the
Education
Liz received her BA in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998; her M.Div. from in 2004 where she was the first William Sloane Coffin Scholar; her MPhil from in 2009; and her PhD in 2014 from in New Testament and Christian Origins where she was the Henry Berg Scholar. The title of her dissertation was “[https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac%3A174895/ ’Will the Poor Be with You Always’: Towards a Methodological Approach of Reading the Bible with the Poor]”.
Interviews
*“Faith leaders urge Trump to reject extremism” AM Joy on MSNBC. Interviewed by Jonathan Capehart with Reverend Dr. William Barber II. December 31, 2016.
*“” The Dawn News. Interviewed by María Torrellas. September 30, 2016.
*“” Vineyard Justice Network. Interviewed by Sydney Wilson. August 6, 2016.
*“Imagining A New Poor People's Campaign that Ends Poverty” The Radical Imagination on Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Interviewed by Jim Vrettos. January 24, 2016.
*“” Caring Magazine. Interviewed by Chadwick Phillips. January 24, 2015.
* Documentary film by Skylight Pictures. 2007.
Works
*, Forward by Rev. Dr. William Barber II (Eerdmans 2017).
*“Why Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to be Meaningful” Religion Dispatches, January 17, 2016.
*“Reading the Bible with the Poor: Building a Social Movement, Led by the Poor, as a United Social Force,” (with Wille Baptist) in Bruce Worthington, ed., (Augsburg Fortress Press, 2015).
*“The Full, Fierce Legacy of Martin Luther King” (with Charlene Sinclair and Karenna Gore) The Daily News, April 4, 2014.
*“And the Last Shall Be First” (with Kathy Maskell, Shailly Gupta Barnes, and Adam Barnes) in Vandana Shiva, ed., The Sacred Seed (Golden Sufi Publishers, 2014).
*“Teach as we Fight, Learn as we Lead: Lessons in Pedagogy and the Poverty Initiative Model” (with Willie Baptist) in Willie Baptist and Jan Rehmann, eds., (Teachers College Press, 2012).
*“The Last Week of Jesus and Last Year of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King” in (Poverty Initiative 2010).
* (Poverty Initiative, 2006).
* (Poverty Initiative, 2005).
*“Responses of the Poor to Empire Then and Now” (with Noelle Damico and Willie Baptist) and “Book Review: New Testament and Roman Empire,” in Brigitte Kahl, Hal Taussig, Davina Lopez, eds., Union Seminary Quarterly Review Spring 2005.

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