|
< back
to Lecturers
Eboo Patel
August 7, 2008
Eboo Patel is the founder and
Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based
international nonprofit working to build mutual respect and pluralism
among religiously diverse young people by empowering them to
work together to serve others. He is the author of Acts of Faith:
The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of
a Generation, published by Beacon Press in June 2007.
Patel holds a doctorate in the
sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied
on a Rhodes scholarship. He serves as an online panelist for
the "On Faith" blog, co-hosted by The Washington Post
and Newsweek magazine. He also serves on the Religious Advisory
Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee
of the Aga Khan Foundation USA, the Advisory Board of Duke University's
Islamic Studies Center, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Patel has written for The Chicago
Tribune, the Journal of Muslim Law and Culture, the Harvard Divinity
School Bulletin, and for National Public Radio. He is an Ashoka
Fellow, part of a select group of social entrepreneurs whose
ideas are changing the world, and was featured in Islamica magazine
as one of the ten leading young Muslim visionaries in America. |
