Title: Founder and Executive Director
Organization: Interfaith Youth Core
Area of Expertise: Arts & Culture, Interfaith issues, Politics & Civil Society, Youth issues
Media Experience: TV, Print, Radio, NPR, PBS, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, CNN
Location: Chicago, IL
Contact: Zeenat Rahman
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Phone 312 573 8915
Dr. 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. His civic engagement includes serving 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. He was also recently named a Trustee of the Chicago Historical Society.
Dr. Patel is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation, released by Beacon Press in June 2007. He has written for The Chicago Tribune, The Journal of Muslim Law and Culture, The Harvard Divinity School Bulletin and National Public Radio. He is a sought after speaker, delivering the Keynote Speech at the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Forum and the Baccalaureate Service Address at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. Dr. Patel also serves as an online panelist for the "On Faith" blog, co-hosted by The Washington Post and Newsweek Magazine. Recently he has appeared on the National Public Radio show Talk of the Nation, and Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, as well as the Public Broadcasting Station’s Tavis Smiley Show.
Dr. Patel was raised in Chicago, and received his BA in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. Eboo 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 leading young Muslim visionaries in America.
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