Liz Theoharis

Quick Facts

Full Name	Liz Theoharis
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Feb 18, 1976(1976-02-18)
Age	48
Birthplace	Milwaukee
Country	United States
Birth City	Wisconsin
Horoscope	Aquarius

Liz Theoharis Biography

Liz Theoharis is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on February 18, 1976 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Liz Theoharis, born February 18, 1976, is the co-chair (alongside Rev. Dr. William Barber II is the Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign. He is also the Director of Union Theological Seminary’s Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice. She is a ordained minister in The Presbyterian Church.

In 2017, Liz was also elected a co-chair of the national committee, along with Rev. Dr. William Barber II, from the Poor People’s Campaign. She traveled across the country in 2017 and 2018, including to Detroit, MI, Harlan County KY, Selma, AL, and Charleston, WV, to promote the campaign’s local organizing. She was participating in a prayer service on the steps of Washington’s Supreme Court during the Poor People’s Campaign: a National Call for Moral Revival’s 40 Days of Action in May-June 2018. In a hearing with senators and members of Congress, she read out a prepared statement the next day. In November 2018, Liz, Rev. “A Call for a Moral Revival” was the title of Dr. William Barber II’s official TED talk. Revive Us Again: Vision and Act in Moral Organizing was her co-authored book. Rev. Dr. William Barber II was published. Published was Dr. Rick Lowery.

In 2019, as a co-chair of the campaign, she participated in “National Emergency Truth and Poverty Tours” organized in various states, meant to highlight the problems facing diverse poor communities in the United States, and the solutions being proposed by the campaign and local organizations. She was the co-chair of the campaign’s “Poor People’s Moral Action Congress,” held from June 17-19th, 2019 at Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C. At the event, she co-moderated a town hall with candidates for the 2020 Democratic Primary and testified before the House Budget Committee, along with other leaders from the campaign.

In 2013, the Poverty Initiative created the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice. Liz was one of its Co-Directors along with Larry Cox.

Liz Theoharis Net Worth

Liz Theoharis is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Liz Theoharis 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Liz Theoharis, a 1994 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, moved from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She became involved with Empty the Shelters while there, a student organization that aims to end homelessness. It is closely linked to the National Union of the Homeless and the Kensington Welfare Rights Union. She was part of KWRU in 1995 and took part in the takeover by dozens homeless families of St. Edwards Church in Philadelphia. She founded the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary in 2003 with the help of other leaders from KWRU, the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign and the “Poverty Scholars Program” in order to create a network for grassroots organizations dedicated to ending poverty.

In 1998, Liz earned her BA in Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Master of Divinity in 2004 from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and her Master of Philosophy and PhD in New Testament and Christian Origins from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014. Her dissertation title was “Will the Poor Always Be with You?” Towards a Methodological Approach to Reading the Bible With the Poor

In 2017, Liz’s first book, Always With Us? What Jesus Really Said About the Poor was published. The book combines reflections on her experiences as an organizer and educator in Philadelphia and with the Poverty Initiative with Biblical scholarship and theology to argue that Jesus’ words in Matthew 26:11—”The poor you will always have with you”—are part of the Bible’s call to end poverty. Later that year the book was made recommended reading for all Presbyterian Churches through the denomination’s “One Church, One Book” initiative.

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Liz Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Liz Theoharis celebrates birthday on February 18 of every year.