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Joyful Revolution: Poverty, Social Justice, and the Story of Mary Rabagliati
200 pages, Paperback
Published October 30, 2025
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Diana Faujour Skelton
12 books9 followersDiana Skelton's next book will be Joyful Revolution: Poverty, Social Justice, and the Story of Mary Rabagliati, scheduled for publication by the Lutterworth Press in October 2025. In 2019, she won a Next Generation Indie Book Award for Until the Sky Turns Silver.
Skelton grew up in Oxon Hill, Maryland. At age 20, she joined the full-time Volunteer Corps of All Together in Dignity/ATD Fourth World, which has been her calling ever since. As part of her work with ATD, she has lived in low-income neighborhoods in the US, Madagascar, and elsewhere. She has also prepared delegations from these communities to meet with high-level officials at the United Nations, where she represented ATD in 1996-2005. In 2008-2016, she was part of ATD's International Leadership Team. One ATD's key participatory research projects was about the violence of poverty and the roles played in building peace by people in poverty. More than 1000 people from 25 countries participated. Skelton used this research to write a three-volume non-fiction book, Artisans of Peace Overcoming Poverty. In 2017, Skelton contributed a chapter to Forging Solidarity: Popular Education at Work. In 2020, Skelton contributed a chapter to: Child Poverty and Social Protection in Western and Central Africa, edited by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty in conjunction with UNICEF. Skelton currently lives in London.
Skelton grew up in Oxon Hill, Maryland. At age 20, she joined the full-time Volunteer Corps of All Together in Dignity/ATD Fourth World, which has been her calling ever since. As part of her work with ATD, she has lived in low-income neighborhoods in the US, Madagascar, and elsewhere. She has also prepared delegations from these communities to meet with high-level officials at the United Nations, where she represented ATD in 1996-2005. In 2008-2016, she was part of ATD's International Leadership Team. One ATD's key participatory research projects was about the violence of poverty and the roles played in building peace by people in poverty. More than 1000 people from 25 countries participated. Skelton used this research to write a three-volume non-fiction book, Artisans of Peace Overcoming Poverty. In 2017, Skelton contributed a chapter to Forging Solidarity: Popular Education at Work. In 2020, Skelton contributed a chapter to: Child Poverty and Social Protection in Western and Central Africa, edited by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty in conjunction with UNICEF. Skelton currently lives in London.
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