Writers Read Featuring COD Alums Draws Huge Crowds
A standing-room-only crowd recently attended a Writers Read event celebrating the College's 50-year anniversary with featured authors, activists and former COD students Eboo Patel and Leigh Stein reading and discussing their work.
Patel is the author of "Acts of Faith," "Sacred Ground" and his recent release "Interfaith Leadership." A Rhodes Scholar and the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), Patel has worked with governments, social organizations and colleges across the U.S. to help realize a future where religion is a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division.
Stein is the award-winning author of "The Fallback Plan," "Dispatch from the Future" and her most recent release, "Land of Enchantment." She has been named a "leading feminist" by the Washington Post, and a "woman of influence" by the New York Business Journal and is the executive director of Out of the Binders, a 501 c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the careers of women and gender non-conforming writers.
Click here for pictures and videos of the presentations by Eboo Patel and Leigh Stein from this event. (Press Photography Network/ Special to College of DuPage)