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Bob Michitarian (né Robert Steven Michitarian; born December 24, 1965) is an American corporate lawyer, political advisor, LGBT equality advocate, and philanthropist.
Early life and family
[edit]Bob Michitarian was born on December 24, 1965 in Montebello, California and raised in Zephyr Cove, Nevada on the southeast shore of Lake Tahoe near the California-Nevada border. He attended George Whittell High School, where as a senior he was captain of the high school football team; Student Body President; and named in 1984[1] by the White House and the U.S. Department of Education as one of 141 Presidential Scholars, which is considered to be "one of the nation's highest honors for high school students."[2]
Michitarian attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science in 1990. While at Stanford, he was a student in the university's rigorous Structured Liberal Education program,[3] studied at Stanford's overseas campus in West Berlin prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and was elected the Editor-in-Chief and President of The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation, a student-run nonprofit that publishes, among other things, the independent student newspaper, The Stanford Daily.
References
[edit]- ^ Presidential Scholars Foundation, The (1984). "Presidential Scholars 1984". Presidential Scholars Foundation. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
- ^ U.S. Department of Education, The (December 01, 2011). "About the Program". U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
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(help) - ^ Garfield, David (January/February 2001). "It's Not Easy Being SLE: Students in Structured Liberal Education take a different view". Stanford Magazine. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
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