Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III

Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III is a nationally respected spiritual leader, author, and activist, serving as Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Known for his powerful voice on justice, democracy, and faith, Dr. Moss weaves together Black spirituality and liberation theology to inspire change and healing. His work calls us to imagine a more just and compassionate society, rooted in service, resilience, and love.

Matthew Desmond

MacArthur “Genius” and Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond has transformed our understanding of poverty in the US with his instant #1 New York Times bestseller Poverty, by America and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Praised as “an extraordinary feat of reporting and ethnography” by The Washington Post, Evicted draws on the stories of eight real families living on the edge of eviction to help readers better understand the causes and conditions of deep poverty. Poverty, by America, has been praised by the New Yorker as “urgent and accessible” and by Esquire as “another paradigm-shifting inquiry into America’s dark heart.” Drawing on history, research, and original reporting, the book reimagines the debate on poverty, and makes a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology and the founder and principal investigator of The Eviction Lab (www.evictionlab.org) at Princeton University. Desmond is a New York Times Magazine contributing writer, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New Yorker and The Chicago Tribune.