The founder of Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based organization building the global interfaith youth movement, will speak at Wake Forest University Thursday, March 1.
Eboo Patel is also a Washington Post contributor. The author will give a presentation entitled “Acts of Faith: Interfaith Leadership in a Time of Global Religious Crisis.”
Earlier this week, WFDD’s Keri Brown spoke with Patel by phone about his upcoming visit to the campus. To hear the interview, click on the mp3 icon above the story.
Eboo Patel is also a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship.
Thursday’s event is free and open to the public and is part of Wake Forest’s Voices of Our Time Speaker series. Eboo Patel will speak at 6 p.m. in Wait Chapel.
