Editing Timothy Shriver (section)

==Career==
Shriver spent 15 years in public education—some in special education—as a teacher.<ref name="ABILITY 2014">{{cite web |last=Cooper |first=Chet |title=Timothy Shriver — Special Olympics |url= http://abilitymagazine.com/Special-Olympics-Shriver.html |publisher=ABILITY Magazine |access-date=February 18, 2014}}</ref> He 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. He became a Fellow at the School Development Program at the Yale Child Study Center.

He was instrumental in establishing the Social Development Project at the public schools in [[New Haven, Connecticut]] and also established the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]].

He was the executive producer on ''[[The Ringer (2005 film)|The Ringer]]'', a co-producer on ''[[Amistad (1997 film)|Amistad]]'' and the [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] movie ''The Loretta Claiborne Story'', and has served as a producer or co-producer on shows for the [[American Broadcasting Company]], the [[NBC|National Broadcasting Corporation]], and the [[Turner Network Television|TNT]] cable channel. He 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.

He is currently the Chairman of Special Olympics. Timothy and his brother [[Anthony Shriver]] have recently aligned the [[Special Olympics]] and [[Best Buddies]] (founded by [[Anthony Shriver]]), to create the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Challenge event, aimed to encourage greater acceptance and inclusion for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities,<ref name="ABILITY Magazine">[http://abilitymagazine.com/Eunice-Legacy.html "Timothy & Anthony Shriver — Eunice’s Legacy"]. ''ABILITY'' Magazine. Daryl "Chill" Mitchell Issue. Aug/Sept 2010.</ref> a condition that affected their late aunt [[Rosemary Kennedy]].<ref name="ABILITY Magazine" /> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/encouraging-students-to-imagine-the-impossible/278017/|title=Encouraging Students to Imagine the Impossible|date=July 23, 2013 |publisher=The Atlantic|access-date=November 16, 2013}}</ref> And he has written a memoir ''Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most'', published by [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] (2014).

In recent years, 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=UNITE|url=https://unite.us/|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=UNITE|language=en-US}}</ref>

===Activism===
As chairman of [[Special Olympics]], Timothy Shriver has campaigned against [[Insult|mocking]] of and discrimination against participants in Special Olympics. He has specifically argued against use of what he calls "the R word," meaning ''[[mental retardation|retarded]]'', stating that the word, "retard", is very offensive and people with intellectual disabilities should be respected and treated like all other people.

In 2008, Shriver and supporters called for a [[boycott]] of the movie ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'', claiming that it mocks people with mental disabilities. The movie is written, produced by, and stars Ben Stiller. In a commentary for [[CNN]], Shriver wrote in part,

{{Blockquote|Together with the members of the international coalition, I am asking [[Steven Spielberg]], Stacey Snider, [[Ben Stiller]] and the entire "Tropic Thunder" team to stop showing the film, and asking movie theaters and moviegoers to shut this movie out. "Tropic Thunder" is a colossal blunder. Don't show or see "Tropic Thunder."

The degrading use of the word "retard" together with the broader humiliation of people with intellectual disabilities in the film goes way too far. When the [[Retard (pejorative)|R-word]] is casually bandied about and when bumbling, clueless caricatures designed to mimic the behavior of people with intellectual disabilities are on screen, they have an unmistakable outcome: They mock, directly or indirectly, people with intellectual disabilities. They perpetuate the worst stereotypes. They further exclusion and isolation. They are simply mean.<ref name="rwordban">
{{cite web|last = Shriver |first = Timothy |title = Commentary: Why 'Tropic Thunder' shouldn't be seen| publisher = [[CNN.com]]| date = August 13, 2008 |url = http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/12/shriver.thunder/ |access-date = August 15, 2009}}</ref>}}