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Paul Loeb is an American social and political activist, and a thought leader on civic engagement.

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Paul Loeb has spent forty-five years researching and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment--asking what makes some people choose lives of social commitment, while others abstain.

He has written five widely praised books, lectured to enthusiastic responses at 500 colleges and universities around the country--including Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Michigan, MIT, Yale, Cornell, Wisconsin, and Columbia--and been a lead speaker at numerous conferences including the National Education Association, American Society on Aging, national Points of Light conference, Education Commission of the States, National Youth Leadership Council, American College Personnel Association, Campus Compact’s Presidential Summit, the American Association of Colleges & Universities, a national conference on race and ethnicity on campus, the company meeting of Patagonia Corp., the Unitarian General Assembly, and TedX conferences in Calgary Alberta and Athens, Greece. Loeb was the first speaker chosen for a New School lecture series called Engaged Lives, "in which exceptional graduates of our p

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Paul Loeb The Wall Street Journal compared Paul Loeb's work with animals to the work of B.F.Skinner: "Loeb illustrates practical approaches to physical needs as a means to psychological (read "behavioral") cures, he is to the canine world what B.F. Skinner, the noted Harvard psychologist who devoted himself to the techniques of shaping behavior, was to the study of man." The Chicago Tribune noted that Loeb has been identified as an animal psychiatrist, animal psychic, or animal trainer. Whatever you call him, he's a success in a wide range of activities involving animals. "His credits include more than 600 TV commercials, ranging from pet foods to men's underwear." Loeb was for several years the Director of Education of animal behavior for the ASPCA in NYC, and held a behavioral clinic at NYC's Animal Medical Center, the largest small animal hospital in the world. His most popular classes were group therapy sessions with radical confrontation for aggressive dogs. Never before or since has anyone taken groups of aggressive dogs

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Paul Rogat Loeb has spent forty years researching and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment—asking what makes some people choose lives of social commitment, while others abstain, and exploring how to find the hope to stay engaged despite all the frustrations and barriers. The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times (Basic Books), was named the #3 political book of fall 2004 by the History Channel and American Book Association, won the Nautilus Award for best social change book, and was one of six books selected for the Sierra Club’s new common reading groups. The Impossible’s new edition was published May 2014. Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times (St Martin’s Press) has over 150,000 copies in print with a wholly revised edition published in April 2010. Paul is also the author of Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy & Action on the American Campus, Nuclear Culture, and Hope in Har