Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith Youth Core and Dominican University’s Lund-Gill Chair for 2011, will give a public lecture, “Acts of Faith: Interfaith Leadership in a Time of Global Religious Crisis,” on Tuesday, November 1 at 7:00 p.m. in the university’s Rosary Chapel, 7900 Division Street, River Forest. The event is free and open to the public.
Patel, nationally recognized as a proponent of interfaith cooperation, is a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. In 2002, he founded the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core, an organization that works with college students to foster respect, understanding and shared service among different faith groups. He is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. His has been a regular contributor to the Washington Post, USA Today and Huffington Post, writing about religion in the modern world, and has spoken at the TED conference, the Clinton Global Initiative and the Nobel Peace Prize Forum.
Named by Islamica magazine as one of the 10 young Muslim visionaries shaping Islam in America, he also was chosen by Harvard’s Kennedy School Review as one of five future policy leaders to watch and was recently selected to join the Young Global Leaders network of the World Economic forum.
At Dominican, Patel is teaching an honors course on the history of interfaith cooperation and, along with Dominican’s Interfaith Youth Core Chapter, guiding the university’s participation in the White House Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge. To read more about interfaith initiatives at Dominican, visit http://www.dom.edu/newsroom/features/patel.html
Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s degrees through the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and master’s degrees through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the School of Continuing Studies. The university also offers a doctoral degree in library and information science. In the 2012 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report ranked Dominican University in the top 20 of Midwest master’s level universities. The magazine also ranked Dominican as one of three “Great Schools at a Great Price” in Illinois.
