"Connecting the struggles, building a movement: The new poor people's campaign."

Willie Baptist - a formerly homeless father - came out of the Watts uprisings, the Black Student Movement, and worked as a lead organizer with the United Steelworkers . Baptist has 40 years of experience organizing with poor people, including such groups as the National Union of the Homeless, the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, the National Welfare Rights Union, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, and many other networks. He is currently the Poverty Initiative Scholar-in-Residence and is the Coordinator of Poverty Scholarship and Leadership Development for the Kairos Center based in New York City.

Baptist is a Board member of the National Welfare Rights Union, the United Workers of Maryland, Picture the Homeless in New York and on the Advisory Committee for the Wildfire Project. Willie is the author of numerous books, articles, and pamphlets including “Pedagogy of the Poor,” “A New and Unsettling Force: Re-Igniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign,” “It’s Not Enough to Be Angry,” “Lessons from the Poor Organizing the Poor,” and “ 5 Main Ingredients and the 6 Panther P’s.”

Find out more about Picture the Homeless at: http://www.picturethehomeless.org/