Category: Interviews

A Better World radio show on WPVM FM
With McNair Ezzard
May 25, 2025
Asheville, North Carolina

Millions of people know that a world of injustice, poverty and oppression are no longer sustainable. Groups across America are working to change this type of world. One such powerful group is the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice in New York. For the last twenty years, Kairos has grown into a national network of grassroots, community and religious leaders and organizations on the front lines of struggles against systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and militarism. 

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Poverty Unpacked podcast
April 26, 2025

Ending poverty requires mass movements. Charitable actions by individuals can make an important difference but are ultimately a drop in the bucket. Real change only happens when people come together and stand up against the injustice of poverty. Indeed, there is a long history of organising with notable successes for current day activists to learn from and feel encouraged by.

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KGNU Connections
Joel Edelstein
April 18, 2025

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Revolutionary Optimism Podcast
Dr. Paul Zeitz
April 14, 2025

Is America at a breaking point—or at the cusp of a breakthrough? In this episode, Dr. Zeitz sits down with Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice. A lifelong theologian and anti-poverty organizer, Rev. Dr. Liz shares why we are living in a Kairos moment—a time of both crisis and profound possibility.

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Nonprofit Quarterly
Damaly Gonzalez
March 27, 2025

“I think the reality of life for poor and unhoused people is these folks are basically the canary in the coal mine of the rest of society, showing the way that we’re headed,” the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, tells NPQ.

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Teri McDowell Ott speaks with Presbyterian Pastor Liz Theoharis on uniting and organizing poor and low-income people into a powerful force.

The Presbyterian Outlook
by The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis & Teri McDowell Ott
February 14, 2025

I was raised in a movement family. My father is a historian, democracy defender, and civil libertarian who helped expose the abuses of the FBI. My mother is the daughter of Armenian genocide survivors and a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church who organized her life around the fight for human rights, inter-religious understanding, and the abolition of poverty, racism and war.

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Background Briefing with Ian Masters
November 27, 2024

“With 66 million million poor folks who are white and 30 million low-wage Americans not voting in the recent election, we discuss a strategy for a Third Reconstruction based on moral values like a living wage and health care and speak with the Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis, Co-Chair with Reverend William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She is the Co-Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice and has spent the past two decades organizing amongst the poor in the United States.

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The grassroots movement known as the Poor People’s Campaign aims to turn the exploited into a giant electoral force.

Truthout
By Nicholas Powers
April 3, 2024

Suppose 53 million low wage workers across the United States seized control of politics. See the hotel maids washing bedsheets and migrants in blood-splattered aprons at meat plants mobilizing for their interests. See baggy-eyed nurses and fast-food staff take part in mass uprisings. Now imagine millions of poor people standing in long lines to vote. America would marvel at this sleeping giant, now awake.

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Voices of Faith: Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
New York Historical Society Interview
August 30, 2023

The eighth annual Diane and Adam E. Max Conference on Women’s History in March explored how women and LGBTQ+ people have transformed not only their own faith but also the religious lives of their communities. Today, we are highlighting one of those voices, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary to discuss how her own personal journey impacted her core philosophies.

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