Eboo Patel

Website: ifyc.org

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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 and a panelist for the Washington Post/Newsweek Magazine "On Faith" blog.  Eboo holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship.  He is an Ashoka Fellow, was named by Islamica Magazine as one of ten Muslim visionaries shaping Islam in America and has been profiled by numerous media outlets, including PBS.   

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