Eboo Patel

Eboo Patel "helped to create the idea and organization of the Interfaith Youth Core in June 1998. He has worked as an organizer, teacher and artist on four continents. He completed his Doctorate at Oxford University in the Sociology of Religion on a Rhodes Scholarship. Eboo was named one of "thirty social visionaries under thirty changing the world" by Utne Reader in 2002, and has been profiled by Conscious Choice Magazine and The Sunday Chicago Tribune. Eboo serves on the Board of the International Interfaith Centre, the North American Interfaith Network, and the Global Youth Action Network, and is President of the Board of CrossCurrents; his essays have appeared in God Within, Global Uprising, Initiative, Interreligious Insight, and Spiritual Perspectives on America's Role as a Superpower; and he has given talks all over the world, most notably at the World Trade Center in Barcelona, the University of Cape Town, UNESCO Paris and Oxford University."

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