Lunch and Learn returns with special guest The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis in conversation with the Prince George's C ounty Office of Human Rights and the Prince George's County Memorial Libra ry System discussing her new book\, "You Only Get What You&rsquo\;re Organ ized to Take: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty."
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\nAbout the Book:
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About the author: \;
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The Reverend Dr. Liz The oharis is Director of the Kairos Center for Religions\, Rights\, and Socia l Justice at Union Theological Seminary and Co-Chair of the Poor People&rs quo\;s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She is an ordained min ister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and teaches at Union Theological Se minary in New York City.
\nRev. Dr. Theoh aris is the co-author of You Only Get What You&rsquo\;re Organized to Take : Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty (Beacon\, 2025)\, co-editor of We Pray Freedom: Liturgies and Rituals from the Freedom Church of the Poor (Broadleaf Press\, 2025)\, editor of We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible wi th the Poor People&rsquo\;s Campaign (Broadleaf Press\, 2021)\, author of Always with Us?: What Jesus Really Said about the Poor (Eerdmans\, 2017) a nd co-author of Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing (Be acon\, 2018). She has been published in The New York Times\, Washington Po st\, Time Magazine\, Newsweek\, Politico\, The Hill\, The Guardian\, The N ation\, Boston Review\, CNN\, Religion News Service\, Sojourners\, Religio n Dispatches\, the Grio\, La Jornada\, Salon\, Slate\, and elsewhere.
\ nRev. Dr. Theoharis has been organizing amon
g poor and low-income communities for thirty years with organizations such
as the National Union of the Homeless\, the National Welfare Rights Union
\, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers\, Domestic Workers United and many m
ore. Raised in a family committed to social justice\, civil liberties and
human rights\, she has been
involved in the movement for her whole li
fe.
Rev. Dr. Theoharis was awarded the Children's HealthWatch Champion Award in 2022\, the 30th Annual Freedom Aw ard by the National Civil Rights Museum\, the Hunger Leadership Award from the Congressional Hunger Center\, and Villanova Peace Award in 2021\, eac h along with the Rev. Dr. William Barber II for their work with the Poor P eople&rsquo\;s Campaign. In 2020 she was named one of 15 Faith Leaders to Watch by the Center for American Progress. In 2019\, she was a Selma &ldqu o\;Bridge&rdquo\; Award recipient and named one of 11 Women Shaping the Ch urch by Sojourners. In 2018\, she gave the &ldquo\;Building a Moral Moveme nt&rdquo\; TEDtalk at TEDWomen\, was named one of the Politico 50 &ldquo\; thinkers\, doers and visionaries whose ideas are driving politics\,&rdquo\ ; and was also named a Women of Faith Award recipient by the Presbyterian Church (USA). Rev. Dr. Theoharis received her BA in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania\; her M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary i n 2004 where she was the first William Sloane Coffin Scholar\; and her PhD from Union in New Testament and Christian Origins.
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