Robert Giannino:
CLASS OF 1990
Somerville High SchoolClass of 1990
Somerville, MA
Harvard CollegeClass of 1995
Cambridge, MA
Winter Hill Community Elementary SchoolClass of 1986
Somerville, MA
Cummings Elementary SchoolClass of 1984
Somerville, MA
Robert's Story
Life
Well, a lot has happened in the last ten years since I graduated from SHS. I'm not quite sure the best way to go through them all. I could just list them, I could write a long, detailed story, or I could just go somewhere in between.
Well, as many of you may remember, I ran for school committee while in my sophomore year at Harvard. Although I lost, I learned some very important lessons while on the capmaign trail. The most important of which was that I was unwilling to lie about who I was. That said, I came out of the closet in the spring of 1992.
Since then, I have lived happily and openly as a gay man. In the last five years, I have:
-Graduated From Harvard with a Government Degree;
-Went to work for world-wide consumer products conglomerate, Procter & Gamble;
-Left P&G to work in the non-profit world, where I now serve as Vice President of one of America's fastest growing organizations, Jumpstart;
-Been the father to a wonderful (now nine year old) boy, Connor
-Spent the last seven years with a great man, Brian, Connor's biological dad, and a brilliant teacher at a prestigious private HS.
-And lost 100+ pounds to weigh less than I did in High School.
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the left in the above picture and Brian is on the right.
Well, that's about it for now. If you want to know more, you'll just have to contact me!
College
Well, Went to Harvard. Spend a lot more time off campus doing community service stuff. Took a year off after running for School Committee and worked on a whole bunch of things -- including Bill Clinton's campaign. Graduated with a degree in Government.
Workplace
Well, for the forst 2.5 years out of college, I worked in Sales and Marketing at the world-wide consumer products company, Procter & Gamble. You probably know them as the makers of Tide, Pringles, Bounty, Charmin, Pampers, etc.
After that, I needed to get into work that was making a real difference to others. If any of you remember by time in High School, I did a lot of community service and politcially related work. Well, since 1998, I've worked for a fast-growing national non-profit organization called Jumpstart. We pair college students with children who are struggling in preschool. While my jobs here have been many, I have settled down to become the Vice President for Business Development and Government Relations -- Overseeing growth and Public Policy.
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