Building and maintaining a participatory, democratic society involves developing strategies for talking with and listening to people who don't always share our perspectives and life experiences. Eboo Patel, author, speaker, educator, and founder of the organization Interfaith America, will offer his insights about democracy, pluralism, and faith, and discuss our shared responsibility of building bridges across difference.
Funding: Hollins Distinguished Speakers Fund
Visit Virginia's Blue Ridge 101 Shenandoah Avenue NE Roanoke, VA 24016 (540) 342-6025 (800) 635-5535
Visit Virginia’s Blue Ridge is committed to cultivating an atmosphere that welcomes and celebrates the unique backgrounds, abilities, passions, and perspectives of our vibrant community. As our region’s only destination marketing organization, we have a responsibility to showcase the best the Roanoke Region has to offer, and those assets and strengths come in varied forms. We embrace differences in race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, language, visible and invisible disabilities, and all the intersecting identities that make Virginians and visitors alike so unique. We believe our differences make us stronger– and better.