2008 Webinar Series

Last year the ILA waded into Webinar waters with a September 2007 given by Jay Conger on "How to Make Your Organization a Talent Factory."  Join us this year as we expand our series of Webinars. 

ILA members may register for one or more Webinars free of charge as a benefit of membership.  Non ILA Members are welcome to attend at a cost of $20 each. 

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Eboo Patel to Deliver ILA May Webinar, The New Multiculturalism: Leadership for a Religiously Diverse World

When: May 27, 1:00 - 2:30 PM EDT
Where: A Computer Near You
Registration:  Free to ILA members, $20 for non-members.

College campuses are places where people from different faiths interact frequently and where diversity is highly valued, and yet faith is rarely a part of the multicultural conversation. Too often, it is divisive voices who fill this vacuum. Last year, David Horowitz organized “Islamofascism Awareness Week” on over a hundred college campuses in the United States, seeking to link Islam to violence. What kind of leadership is needed for a new world of religious diversity and religious conflict when the people with the highest profile and loudest voices are extremists of all sides?   In his talk tailored to the ILA’s international audience, Dr. Eboo Patel will speak about his journey to deepening his own Muslim and American roots, a story he documents in his book Acts of Faith, and the role that those traditions played in his development as a leader. He will also talk about how he develops other interfaith leaders through the organization he founded and runs, the Interfaith Youth Core, www.ifyc.org.  To learn more about Dr. Patel and his work, you can visit the blog he has for the Washington Post and Newsweek.

Eboo Patel is founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit that promotes interfaith cooperation. His blog, The Faith Divide, explores what drives faiths apart and what brings them together. He is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. An American Muslim of Indian heritage, Eboo has a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. He is on the Religious Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation and the Advisory Board of Duke University's Islamic Studies Center. Eboo is an Ashoka Fellow, part of a select network of social entrepreneurs with ideas that could change the world.

Additional Links

A video of IFYC's work, done by PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1033/profile.html 

A 30 minute interview with NPR, including an excerpted chapter from Eboo's book:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12098469

Interview on leadership with Eboo Patel and Jean Case of the Case Foundation http://www.casefoundation.org/leaders/patel 



 

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