Change:HOW? #25 Sue Goss and Ruth Lister
Channel: Change How
Date: 08/03/2015

Baroness Ruth Lister is chair of the Compass management committee, emeritus professor of social policy at Loughborough University and a Labour peer. She is a former director of the Child Poverty Action Group and is now its honorary president. 

She has published widely on poverty and social exclusion, welfare state reform, gender and citizenship. She has been a tireless antipoverty campaigner, children’s rights activist and feminist. 

Sue Goss is a writer, political scientist and commentator, and has been writing about politics, local government and democracy for the past thirty years. Her most recent publication is Open Tribe, an exploration of the possibility of combining solidarity with an openness towards difference.

Sue was deputy editor of Renewal journal for its first ten years, and has been Chair of Charter 88.