Timothy Shriver is the chairman of Special Olympics International, since 1996. He is also co-founder of Unite, an initiative promoting national unity and solidarity across differences, and co-founder and chairman of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning school research organization. An educator for 15 years, Shriver has also produced six films, including Amistad and The Loretta Claiborne Story. He is the author of Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most, and co-editor of The Call to Unite: Voices of Hope and Awakening. Shriver is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, co-chair of the National Commission on Social and Emotional Learning, and president of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation.
