2018 Women of Faith awardee: Liz Theoharis

Liz Theoharis, New York, New York City Presbytery, Synod of the Northeast. Theoharis is the co-director of the Kairos Center and co-chair of the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She spent the last two decades with grassroots, community-led, anti-poverty organizations working to build the movement to end poverty. In her book, Always with Us?: What Jesus Really Said about the Poor (Eerdmans, 2017), she argues that being poor is not inevitable and that a theology that suggests otherwise has stifled the growth of a transformative movement to end poverty. Her book was recommended to the church this past summer by the Co-Moderators of the 222nd General Assembly (2016).