Shailly Gupta Barnes
Shailly Gupta Barnes is the Policy Director for the Poor People's Campaign and the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice.
Shailly has used her background in law, economics and human rights to work with and for dispossessed communities for more than 15 years. In 2020, she coordinated a groundbreaking study on the impact of poor and low-income voters, Unleashing the Power of Poor and Low-income Americans: Changing the Political Landscape. Through the Kairos Center, she also produced a compilation of resources on militarism, Stop the War on our Poor: Combatting US Militarism and the War Economy (2020), and writes regularly on key issues around the inter-related crises of poverty, systemic racism, militarism, ecological devastation and the false moral narrative of Christian nationalism.
Board Members
From the Common Defense website as of January 23, 2023:[1]
- Judith LeBlanc, Chair
- Jonathan Smucker, Secretary
- Julie Oliver, Treasurer
- Shailly Gupta Barnes
- Qasim Rashid
- Billy Ray
- Jeff Blum
IPS/PPC connection
The Institute for Policy Studies produced a report "in support of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival:"
- "This campaign, marking the 50th anniversary of the Poor People’s Campaign led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders, aims to build a broad and deep national movement rooted in the leadership of the poor and dispossessed as moral agents and reflecting the great moral teachings to unite our country around a transformative agenda to combat poverty, racism, militarism, and ecological devastation. We worked in collaboration with the Co-Chairs of the Poor People's Campaign, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, and the Tri-Chairs of the Campaign's Audit Committee, Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Dr. Timothy Tyson, and Shailly Gupta Barnes.[2]