Eboo Patel
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Eboo Patel is a member of President Barack Obama
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's inaugural Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships. He is an American Muslim of Gujarati
Gujarati people
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 Indian heritage and founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core,
a Chicago
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-based international nonprofit that aims to promote interfaith cooperation.

Biography

Patel grew up in Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Glen Ellyn, Illinois
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, where he attended Glenbard South High School. He has a doctorate in the sociology
Sociology
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 of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship
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. Patel attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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 for his undergraduate studies.

Work

  • His blog, at Washington Post, The Faith Divide, explores what drives faiths apart and what brings them together.
  • He is on the Religious Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation
    Aga Khan Foundation
    The Aga Khan Foundation is a private, not-for-profit international development agency, which was founded in 1967 by . AKF seeks to provide long-term solutions to problems of poverty, hunger, illiteracy and ill health in the poorest parts of South and Central Asia, Eastern and Western Africa, and...

  • He was on the Advisory Board of Duke University
    Duke University
    Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

     Islamic Studies Center.
  • Patel is a fellow of Ashoka Foundation, part of a select network of social entrepreneurs.
  • He is serving as Dominican University
    Dominican University (Illinois)
    Dominican University is a coeducational, comprehensive, Catholic institution of higher education and research in River Forest, Illinois. Affiliated with the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, it offers bachelor's and master's degrees and certificate programs...

    's Lund-Gill Chair in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences for fall 2011.

Awards

  • In 2005 Patel received the David Kellum award from the Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette for service to youth.
  • Patel was the recipient of the 2010 Louisville Grawemeyer Award
    Grawemeyer Award
    The Grawemeyer Awards are five awards given annually by the University of Louisville in the state of Kentucky, United States. The prizes are presented to individuals in the fields of education, ideas improving world order, music composition, religion, and psychology...

     in Religion.

External links

  • http://www.ifyc.org/about_core/staff, Bio at IFYC
  • http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4989625 Eboo Patel on This I Believe
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     - NPR
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    , Nov. 7, 2005.
  • http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12098469 Eboo Patel on Talk of the Nation
    Talk of the Nation
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     - NPR
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    , July 19, 2007.
  • Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Eboo Patel from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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