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Eboo Patel

  • Founder and President, Interfaith America
Chicago
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President, Interfaith America. Follow @InterfaithUSA. Author, ‘We Need To Build’. Podcast: bit.ly/3Eh7Hwr. media@interfaithamerica.org
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Dear Students: Cultivate Your Humanity!

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By Eboo Patel
| Persuasion
Sydney making the omelet. (Screenshot: FX/Hulu.) This essay is based on a commencement address given at Denison University on May 16, 2026. Let’s travel through time. Put on your bell bottoms, stare dreamily at that lava lamp, turn up the volume on Paul Simon’s “Mrs. Robinson,” and imagine you are graduating from college in the mid-1960s.
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Build, Don’t Fight: Advice for Graduates Pursuing Nonprofit Careers

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By Eboo Patel
| The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Dek: Amid uncertainty and division, here are five lessons for those entering the sector — and for those already in it. Keep up with everything happening in The Commons by signing up for our monthly newsletter. It’s college graduation season, a time of celebration and transition. This year’s graduates are surely wondering how they will make their way, leave their mark, and find their fortune amid global conflicts, political upheaval, and technological transformation.
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The Alice Waters theory of social change

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By Eboo Patel
| The Science of Politics
David Sifry, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, Alice Waters grew up in post-World War II America, the first era of mass market processed foods. Meals for her generation typically came from the freezer or out of a can. When Alice went to France in 1965, she experienced a whole new food culture. People went to the market regularly to find the freshest food available. They were happy to pay extra for the good bread.
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