“Defeat the things you do not love by building the things you do.”
-National interfaith leader and Lutheran Center Fellow Eboo Patel
Eboo’s Visit to St. Olaf
Eboo‘s visit focused on his newly-released book We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy. We Need to Build is a guide for those who seek to promote positive social change and build a more diverse and just democracy. Aimed at challenging people to fight injustices in society by building institutions and structures that promote the change they want to see, Eboo shares his stories of building and leading his organization Interfaith America and how along the way, he has come to construct as much as critique and collaborate more than oppose.
More about Eboo
Eboo is a civic leader who believes that religious diversity is an essential and inspiring dimension of American democracy. Named “one of America’s best leaders” by U.S. News and World Report, Eboo is Founder and President of Interfaith America, the leading interfaith organization in the United States. Under his leadership, Interfaith America has worked with governments, universities, private companies, and civic organizations to make faith a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division.
Eboo served on President Obama’s Inaugural Faith Council, has given hundreds of keynote addresses, and has written five books, including We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy. He is an Ashoka Fellow and holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. Eboo lives in Chicago with his wife, Shehnaz, and their two sons.
Flashbacks: Eboo’s Events at St. Olaf
Keynote Address:
We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy
Eboo Patel with faculty respondents Anthony Bateza, Mary Carlsen, and Tesfa Wondemagegnehu
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