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{{Short description|American non-profit executive (born 1959)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = Timothy Shriver by Slawek.jpg | image_size = | caption = Shriver in 2010 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|8|29}} | birth_place = [[Boston, Massachusetts]], U.S.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/religionfromtheheart/2008/03/opening_day_op.html|url-status=dead|title=Time Begins Again on Opening Day|last=Shriver|first=Timothy|date=March 31, 2008|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080413182836/http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/religionfromtheheart/2008/03/opening_day_op.html|archive-date=April 13, 2008}}</ref> | occupation = [[Chair (official)|Chairman]] of [[Special Olympics]] | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | spouse = {{marriage|Linda Potter|May 31, 1986}} | children = 5 | parents = {{ubl|[[Sargent Shriver]]|[[Eunice Kennedy Shriver]]}} | relatives = [[Shriver family]] <br> [[Kennedy family]] | education = {{plainlist| * [[Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) * [[Catholic University of America]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]]) * [[University of Connecticut]] ([[PhD]]) }} }} '''Timothy Perry Shriver''' (born August 29, 1959) is an American disability rights activist, film producer, and former educator who has been Chairman of [[Special Olympics]] since 1996<ref>{{cite news |title=WPP appoints Timothy Shriver, Chairman of Special Olympics, as non-exec director {{!}} WPP |url=https://www.wpp.com/news/2007/08/wpp-appoints-timothy-shriver-chairman-of-special |access-date=September 24, 2019 |publisher=WPP |date=August 8, 2007 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.specialolympics.org/Press/2013/Special_Olympics_Names_Janet_Froetscher_New_CEO.aspx |title=Special Olympics: Special Olympics Names Janet Froetscher New CEO |access-date=October 22, 2013 |archive-date=October 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016065929/http://www.specialolympics.org/Press/2013/Special_Olympics_Names_Janet_Froetscher_New_CEO.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://community.travelchinaguide.com/forum2.asp?pp=&i=39786&page=1 Inspiring Theme Song – Sports – China Travel Community<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and is the founder<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://unite.us/about |access-date=March 28, 2022 |website=UNITE |language=en-US}}</ref> of UNITE. He is a member of the prominent [[Shriver family|Shriver]] and [[Kennedy family|Kennedy families]], as the third child of [[Eunice Kennedy Shriver]] (who founded the Special Olympics), and [[Sargent Shriver]], who helped found the [[Peace Corps]]. ==Early life and education== Timothy Shriver was born in [[Boston, Massachusetts]] to [[Sargent Shriver]], a former [[United States Ambassador to France]] and the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party's]] vice-presidential candidate in 1972, and [[Eunice Kennedy Shriver]], the founder of [[Special Olympics]]. He was raised as a [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080423140112/http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/religionfromtheheart/2008/04/proud_to_be_catholic.html Proud to Be a Catholic]</ref> along with his siblings, [[Bobby Shriver]], [[Maria Shriver]], [[Mark Kennedy Shriver|Mark Shriver]], and [[Anthony Shriver]]. He is a member of the [[Kennedy Family]] through his mother, [[Eunice Kennedy Shriver]], a younger sister of President [[John F. Kennedy]]. He is also 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. Shriver graduated from [[St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)|St. Albans School]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E2D8163BF93BA35751C1A963948260 |title=Linda Potter To Wed Timothy Shriver – New York Times |date=December 8, 1985 |access-date=June 26, 2008 |work=[[New York Times]]}}</ref> He received his B.A. from [[Yale University]] in 1981, his [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] in religion and [[religious education]] from [[The Catholic University of America]] in 1988,<ref>[http://alumni.cua.edu/Recognition/NotableAlumni.cfm The Catholic University of America Office of Alumni Relations<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and his Ph.D. in education from the [[University of Connecticut]] in 1996. He participated in the 1997 class of the [[Young Global Leaders|Global Leaders for Tomorrow]] program hosted by the [[World Economic Forum]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Class of 1997 |url=http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1997.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140914231237/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1997.pdf |archive-date=2014-09-14 |website=[[World Economic Forum]]}}</ref> ==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>}} ==''Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most''== In November 2014, Shriver released a book called ''Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most''. ==Personal life== Shriver married Linda Potter (born January 13, 1956)<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kennedys/sfeature/sf_tree_text.html American Experience | The Kennedys | Kennedy Family Tree | PBS<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> on May 31, 1986 at [[Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart|Dahlgren Chapel]] on the [[Georgetown University]] campus. They reside in [[Chevy Chase, Maryland]] and have five children: Sophia Rose Shriver (born 1987);<ref>{{Cite web|last=Aman|first=Melanie|url= https://www.firstforwomen.com/posts/kennedy-family-118426/photos/36-sophia-shriver-206162#photo-anchor |title=See the Entire Kennedy Family!|website=First for Women|date=October 26, 2017|access-date=May 25, 2018}}</ref> Timothy Perry Shriver, Jr. (born 1988);<ref>{{Cite web|last=Aman|first=Melanie|url= https://www.firstforwomen.com/posts/kennedy-family-118426/photos/37-timothy-shriver-jr-206163 |title=See the Entire Kennedy Family!|website=First for Women|date=October 26, 2017|access-date=May 25, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Aman|first=Melanie|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTN2dJitPvc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/lTN2dJitPvc| archive-date=December 12, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Tim Shriver Jr. Endorsement for Special Chronicles|website=Special Chronicles|date=January 21, 2014|access-date=May 25, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Samuel Kennedy Shriver (born 1992);<ref>{{Cite web|last=Aman|first=Melanie|url= https://www.firstforwomen.com/posts/kennedy-family-118426/photos/38-samuel-shriver-206164#photo-anchor |title=See the Entire Kennedy Family!|website=First for Women|date=October 26, 2017|access-date=May 25, 2018}}</ref> Kathleen Francis Shriver (born 1994);<ref>{{Cite web|last=Aman|first=Melanie|url= https://www.firstforwomen.com/posts/kennedy-family-118426/photos/39-kathleen-shriver-206166#photo-anchor |title=See the Entire Kennedy Family!|website=First for Women|date=October 26, 2017|access-date=May 25, 2018}}</ref><ref name="kathleen">{{Cite web|last=Shriver|first=Kathleen|url= https://www.firstforwomen.com/posts/kennedy-family-118426/photos/39-kathleen-shriver-206166#photo-anchor |title=From D.C. to Medellín, Every Child Needs SEL|website=Committee for Children Blot|date=September 15, 2017|access-date=May 25, 2018}}</ref> Caroline Elizabeth Shriver (born 1997).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Aman|first=Melanie|url= https://www.firstforwomen.com/posts/kennedy-family-118426/photos/40-caroline-shriver-206172#photo-anchor |title=See the Entire Kennedy Family!|website=First for Women|date=October 26, 2017|access-date=May 25, 2018}}</ref><ref name="kathleen"/> Linda Potter is the great-granddaughter of [[Archibald D. Russell]], a great-great-granddaughter of [[Percy Rivington Pyne I]], and a great-great-great-granddaughter of Dr. [[James Russell (surgeon)|James Russell]], a former president of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] and [[Moses Taylor]], who was one of the greatest railroad, iron, and coal company financiers and was president of [[Citibank|National City Bank]] for 27 years. She is also a direct descendant of the merchant [[Russell Sturgis (1750–1826)|Russell Sturgis]] (1750-1826), Elizabeth (née Perkins) Sturgis (a sister of merchant [[Thomas Handasyd Perkins]]), [[Walter Rutherfurd]] (1723–1804) and Catherine Alexander (1727–1801), daughter of [[James Alexander (lawyer)|James Alexander]] and [[Mary Alexander|Mary Spratt Provoost]]. Her sister Isabel Tweedy Potter is married to Richard S. Aldrich Jr, a grandson of [[Richard S. Aldrich]], who served in Congress from 1923 to 1933, a great-grandson of [[Nelson W. Aldrich]], who served as a Senator from [[Rhode Island]] and a great-nephew of [[Abby Aldrich Rockefeller|Abby Aldrich]], who became the wife of financier and philanthropist [[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]] ==Awards and honors== *2024 Honorary degree from [[Grand Valley State University]] *2022 Honorary degree from [[Georgetown University]] *2019 Honorary degree from [[Fordham University]] *2012 Honorary degree from [[Villanova University]] *2011 Honorary degree from [[La Salle University]] * Honorary degree from [[University of Connecticut]] * Honorary degree from [[Niagara University]] * Honorary degree from [[Albertus Magnus College]] * The Medal of the City of [[Athens]], Greece * 1995 [[Connecticut]] Citizen of the Year. * Honorary degree from [[Loyola University Chicago|Loyola University]] * Honorary degree from [[New England College]] * The Order de Manuel Amador Guerrera of the Republic of [[Panama]] * Presidential Medallion from [[University of Illinois]] * Honorary degree from Springfield College *Walter Camp 2015 "Distinguished American" *Honorary degree from [[Saint Peter's University]] ==Board membership== *American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities *Board of the Education Commission of the States' Compact for Learning and Citizenship *Chairman, [http://casel.org Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning] *[[Council on Foreign Relations]] *The Edison Schools Incorporated *The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] *Board of Advisors for HealthCorps *Chairman UNESCO at IT Tralee (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) ==See also== Siblings of Timothy Shriver: * [[Maria Shriver|Maria Owings Shriver]] (b. 1955) * [[Mark Kennedy Shriver]] (b. 1964) * [[Robert Sargent Shriver III]] (b. 1954) * [[Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver]] (b. 1965) == Further reading == *{{cite book |last=Shriver |first=Timothy |title=Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most |date=2014 |publisher=Sarah Crichton Books-Farrar, Straus and Giroux |location=New York, NY | author-link = Timothy Shriver}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080229171100/http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/religionfromtheheart/ Religion from the Heart: Re-thinking, Re-feeling and Reviving Faith By: Timothy Shriver] *{{IMDb name|id=0795420}} *[http://www.specialolympics.org/tim_shriver.aspx Full Biography from the Special Olympics Website] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20031221001355/http://www.casel.org/home/index.php The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning] *[http://www.malarianomore.org Malaria No More] *"[http://abilitymagazine.com/Eunice-Legacy.html Timothy & Anthony Shriver — Eunice’s Legacy]". 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