Ciara M. Taylor

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Bio: Ciara Taylor is the Cultural Strategies Organizer and Educator for the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice, working across the program areas of Culture and Communications and Poverty Scholarship and Leadership Development – to help produce cultural resources, develop curriculum, and build network relationships that will shift the narrative about racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and Christian nationalism and build power among poor and low-income people across the country and world. Ciara is also an educator and organizer with the University of the Poor, the National Welfare Rights Union, the National Union of the Homeless, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, and co-host of a podcast with Breakthrough News called, Gravediggers Unite!. Cali born and Southern-raised, Ciara moved to New York City in 2017 to launch the People’s Forum, a working-class international movement incubator in the heart of Hell’s Kitchen.