Choi Jun-young is a Korean humanities educator and writer widely known as a “street humanist.” For more than two decades, he has worked alongside people experiencing homelessness, residents of self-support centers and shelters, prisoners, marginalized youth, and others living outside conventional social safety nets. Rather than approaching humanities as abstract scholarship, Choi has used reading, conversation, listening, and education as practical tools for restoring dignity and human connection. The Right to Be Poor records people he encountered through this work and reflects his conviction that poverty should never require surrendering one’s rights, voice, or chosen way of living.