A Conversation with Interfaith Youth Core Leadership

Session: Block 2: Friday 2:00 to 3:15, Room: Seacliff C

This workshop will build expand on the themes of Dr Patel's keynote. He and his colleague Cassie Meyer, Director of Outreach Education and Training at the IFYC, will provide examples and teaching tools about religion and religious diversity that can be easily adapted to schools. These will include readings and research projects that can be used in classrooms, and interfaith extracurricular initiatives that high school students around the world are leading.


Cassie Meyer, Director of Outreach Education and Training, Interfaith Youth Core

Cassie Meyer completed her master's degree at the University of Chicago Divinity School in June 2005, where her work focused on social justice movements in modern American religion; she co-teaches “Interfaith Action in the World” with Dr Eboo Patel at Chicago Theological Seminary and regularly travels around the country to lead trainings on interfaith youth service work. Cassie serves on the Community Renewal Society’s Associate Board and is the Youth Voices editor for Interreligious Insight.

Eboo Patel, , Interfaith Youth Core

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