Eboo Patel

Eboo Patel is the founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit building the interfaith youth movement. He is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. He writes a featured blog called "The Faith Divide" for The Washington Post, and is a regular guest on National Public Radio and CNN. He is also a sought-after public speaker, delivering the keynote address at the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Forum, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative, and giving the Baccalaureate Service Address at both the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College. Patel has a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. He is an Ashoka Fellow and was named one of 10 young Muslim visionaries shaping Islam in America by Islamica Magazine.