Sam Theoharis is the Director of Communications for the Kairos Center with a background in data communication, public policy research, social media management, and decarceral community organizing. Prior to working for Kairos, Sam worked as a research associate at Brown University’s Justice Policy Lab studying the racial and political economy of prison proliferation and at Stop Torture Rhode Island organizing students to advocate for an end to solitary confinement. Sam is also a hobbyist editor/ghostwriter with a distance running habit.
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The Young Organizers Survival Corps
The stakes are only getting higher for those of us coming of age at a moment when this country is changing from something like a democracy to Donald Trump’s chilling autocratic version of America. Yet if we know anything from decades of antipoverty organizing, it’s that the unfettered imaginations, moral clarity, and capacity for decisive action of young Americans can always triumph over the misguided political liaisons of their elders.
February 9, 2026
