She is also on the advisory board of Best Buddies, a one-to-one friendship and jobs program for people with intellectual disabilities. She is a member of the International Board of Special Olympics, the organization her mother founded in 1968. Shriver has been a lifelong advocate for people with intellectual disabilities. Shriver also serves on the advisory board of the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute, which raises public awareness of her father's legacy as a peacebuilder and offers educational and training programs grounded in the principles of public service that motivate the many programs he created, including the Peace Corps, Job Corps, Head Start, and Legal Services for the Poor. The film chronicled the life, accomplishments and vision of her father, Sargent Shriver. The documentary originally aired on PBS on January 21, 2008. In 2008, Shriver executive-produced American Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver. Shriver subsequently returned to the news media. Shriver announced that she would not return to the news media after the excessive media coverage of the death of Anna Nicole Smith. On March 23, 2007, Shriver returned to television news as substitute host of panel-discussion talk show Larry King Live on CNN with musician Sheryl Crow and other guests.
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She also played a minor role as herself in "Be Prepared", a 2006 episode of the television series That's So Raven promoting a "Preparedness Plan". She appeared as herself in the film Last Action Hero (1993).
On February 3, 2004, Shriver asked to be "relieved of duties at NBC News," citing concerns the network had over the conflict of interest between her role as a journalist and her status as the First Lady of California and her increasing role as an advocate of her husband's administration. She then returned to reporting, making two more appearances for Dateline NBC. In August 2003, Shriver took an unpaid leave of absence from NBC News when her husband became a candidate in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election.įollowing her husband's November 17, 2003, inauguration as the 38th Governor of California, she became the First Lady of California. She was a contributing anchor on Dateline NBC from 1992 until 2004.
Shriver also served as Saturday anchor 1989 & Sunday 1990 of NBC Nightly News. After her journalism career began with KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she co-anchored The CBS Morning News with Forrest Sawyer from August 1985 until August 1986, co-anchored NBC News's Sunday Today from 1987 until 1990. vice presidential race, calling these orders "the best thing that ever happened to me". In her book Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out Into The Real World (2000), Shriver says that she became passionate about broadcast journalism after being sent to the back of the campaign plane with the press corps while volunteering for her father's 1972 U.S.
Shriver is also a cousin of Caroline Kennedy.Ĭareer Media career and advocacy
Shriver is a fourth cousin of tennis player Pam Shriver. Shriver permanently returned from France to Bethesda, Maryland, in 1970, where she attended Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart high school and graduated in 1973, later attending Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York for two years, then transferring into a Bachelor of Arts degree in American studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, graduating in June 1977. Shriver spent her middle school years living in Paris, France, save for a brief period where Shriver's family temporarily moved to Chicago, Illinois in the summer of 1968 following Eunice Kennedy Shriver's work with the Special Olympics. A Roman Catholic, she is of mostly Irish and German descent. Senator Ted Kennedy, and six other prominent siblings. Shriver was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 6, 1955, the second child of the politician Sargent Shriver and activist Eunice Kennedy.
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