The youngest and only boy of four children, Chip Arndt attended Hotchkiss School, a private school in his native Connecticut, and won a fellowship to a 13th year at Harrow College in Northwest London.
12 Facts About Chip Arndt
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Chip Arndt earned his undergraduate degree in history, with honors, at Yale University in 1990, where he was captain of the golf team.
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Chip Arndt worked for five years as an investment banker for Morgan Stanley as well as in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles.
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Chip Arndt then entered Harvard University for an MBA in 1996.
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Chip Arndt was president of the Harvard Graduate School Leadership and Ethics Forum, chairman and founder of the Annual Harvard Business, Law, and Harvard Kennedy School Debate, and president of the Harvard Business School Gay and Lesbian Student Association.
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Chip Arndt has been active in the LGBT community following the win, and has appeared on the cover of The Advocate.
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Later that month, Chip Arndt addressed a group of gay-straight alliance leaders.
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Chip Arndt is a co-director of The Gay American Heroes Foundation, and the website CoupleForEquality.
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Chip Arndt was one of the commentators on the official CBS Website for The Amazing Race 10, where he answered questions from fans of the show about his experiences and behind-the-scenes knowledge about the series, and revealed that he accidentally ran into the returning teams secretly chosen for the program's 11th season, the anticipated "All Stars" version, at an airport.
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Chip Arndt was elected a PLEO Obama delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention and was named one of Florida's 27 electors representing the state in the Electoral College.
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Chip Arndt cast his vote in the state capital of Tallahassee, Florida for President-elect Obama and Vice President-elect Biden.
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Chip Arndt was the first openly gay man to have cast an electoral vote in the state of Florida.