1. Timothy Perry Shriver was born on August 29,1959 and is an American disability rights activist, film producer, and former educator who has been Chairman of Special Olympics since 1996 and is the founder of UNITE.
19 Facts About Timothy Shriver
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Timothy Shriver is a member of the prominent Shriver and Kennedy families, as the third child of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and Sargent Shriver, who helped found the Peace Corps.
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Timothy Shriver was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Sargent Shriver, a former United States Ambassador to France and the Democratic Party's vice-presidential candidate in 1972, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of Special Olympics.
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Timothy Shriver was raised as a Catholic along with his siblings, Bobby Shriver, Maria Shriver, Mark Shriver, and Anthony Shriver.
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Timothy Shriver is a member of the Kennedy Family through his mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a younger sister of President John F Kennedy.
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Timothy Shriver is a part of the prominent Shriver family since his ancestor David Shriver was a delegate of Frederick County, Maryland, who signed the Maryland Constitution and Bill of Rights at Maryland's Constitutional Convention of 1776.
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Timothy Shriver participated in the 1997 class of the Global Leaders for Tomorrow program hosted by the World Economic Forum.
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Timothy Shriver served as a high school teacher in the New Haven, Connecticut public school system, and as a counselor and teacher in the University of Connecticut branch of the Upward Bound program for disadvantaged youth.
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Timothy Shriver became a Fellow at the School Development Program at the Yale Child Study Center.
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Timothy Shriver was instrumental in establishing the Social Development Project at the public schools in New Haven, Connecticut and established the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Timothy Shriver was the executive producer on The Ringer, a co-producer on Amistad and the Disney movie The Loretta Claiborne Story, and has served as a producer or co-producer on shows for the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Corporation, and the TNT cable channel.
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Timothy Shriver is currently a board member of Malaria No More, a New York-based nonprofit that was launched at the 2006 White House Summit with the goal of ending all deaths caused by malaria.
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Timothy and his brother Anthony Shriver have recently aligned the Special Olympics and Best Buddies, to create the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Challenge event, aimed to encourage greater acceptance and inclusion for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, a condition that affected their late aunt Rosemary Kennedy.
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Timothy Shriver has served on the Board of Directors of The Future Project, a national initiative to empower young people to discover their passion and change the world, since its founding.
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In recent years, Timothy Shriver stepped down as CEO from the Special Olympics to launch UNITE, a national initiative for bringing Americans across divides together in common purpose to address universal challenges that can only be solved together.
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Timothy Shriver has specifically argued against use of what he calls "the R word," meaning retarded, stating that the word, "retard", is very offensive and people with intellectual disabilities should be respected and treated like all other people.
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In November 2014, Timothy Shriver released a book called Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most.
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Timothy Shriver married Linda Potter was born on January 13,1956 and on May 31,1986 at Dahlgren Chapel on the Georgetown University campus.
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Timothy Shriver is a direct descendant of the merchant Russell Sturgis, Elizabeth Sturgis, Walter Rutherfurd and Catherine Alexander, daughter of James Alexander and Mary Spratt Provoost.