Patton Dodd

Patton Dodd is the executive director of storytelling and communications for the H. E. Butt Foundation in San Antonio, Texas. Along with overseeing communications strategy for the organization, he runs Know Your Neighbor, a program that uses storytelling to build bridges across San Antonio’s economic divides. Dodd is a longtime journalist and essayist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, the Financial Times, Newsweek, Slate, CNN. com, and Christianity Today. He holds a doctorate in religion and literature from Boston University.

His books include My Faith So Far, The Prayer Wheel, and The Father You Get: And the Ones You Make, Believe In, and Become.