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Dr Eboo Patel, Glenbard Alum and Founder and CEO of Interfaith Youth Core in conversation with Dr. Tyrone Howard

We Need to Build: Education for Diverse Democracy

Wed, Apr 6, 2022 @ 7:00 pm CDT - 8:00 pm CDT

| Free

For a video of this presentation click here

 

For the first time the Glenbard Parent Series has chosen a “Community Read” author that is one of its own. Dr. Eboo Patel is a Glenbard South graduate and one of the most prominent faith leaders in the United States. He is the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), and the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. The award-winning book is a coming-of-age story about a Muslim immigrant’s search for identity and the development of an interfaith youth movement focused on building bridges across forms of difference that too-often divide. The book addresses racism, bullying, immigration, and building up the next generation of young people to bring about a more just and compassionate world. Patel presents his personal life story, which focuses on his faith development growing up a racial/ethnic/religious minority in Glen Ellyn.

Now from the former faith adviser to President Obama comes his most recent book “We Need to Build: Field notes for Diverse Democracy”, which is an inspirational guide for those who seek to promote positive social change and build a more diverse and just democracy. In his youth, Eboo Patel was inspired by love-based activists like John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Badshah Khan, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Thich Nhat Hanh. Their example, and a timely challenge to build the change he wanted to see, led to a life engaged in the particulars of building, nourishing, and sustaining an institution that seeks to promote positive social change—Interfaith America. Now, drawing on his twenty years of experience, Patel tells the stories of what he’s learned and how, in the process, he came to construct as much as critique and collaborate more than oppose. His challenge to us is clear: those of us committed to refounding America as a just and inclusive democracy need to defeat the things we don’t like by building the things we do.

Named by U.S. News & World Report as one of America’s Best Leaders of 2009, Patel’s Chicago-based organization, IFYC, is building an interfaith movement on college campuses. Dr. Patel also wrote Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America and is a regular contributor to The Washington Post, USA Today, Huffington Post, NPR, and CNN. He served on President Obama’s inaugural 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. He was recently awarded the Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize, an award given to an individual to enhance awareness of the crucial role of religious dialogue in the pursuit of peace.

 

Interfaith Youth Core web site

 

Following our guest speaker’s remarks, Dr. Tyrone Howard will join Dr. Patel in conversation.

Professor Tyrone C. Howard is a Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and the Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at UCLA. He is the author of the bestseller All Students Must Thrive –Transforming Schools to Combat Toxic Stressors and Cultivate Critical Wellness. The book is a multilayered approach to think across racial and cultural differences to create an inclusive, affirming, respectful environment that supports students and their families holistically. Dr. Howard is considered one of the foremost experts on race, equity, access and education and the recipient of multiple teaching and research honors.

 

 

 

 

Eboo Patel’s staff shared this recording of A White House Celebration of Black Interfaith and Religious Diversity in America in honor of Black History Month.  Watch HERE

In cooperation with our annual sponsors, additional financial support for this program comes from Northwestern Medicine Community Affairs. Thanks also go to our following community organizations for their partnership of this special event: DuPage County Social Studies, League of Women Voters and One Community.

 

 

 

 

This event will be presented virtually.  The link to log in to this webinar from your computer, tablet or phone is https://glenbard.zoom.us/j/81883787009

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Date:
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Time:
7:00 pm CDT - 8:00 pm CDT
Cost:
Free
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Gilda Ross

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Dr Eboo Patel, Glenbard Alum and Founder and CEO of Interfaith Youth Core in conversation with Dr. Tyrone Howard