User:JakeKingBlack/Bob Michitarian

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
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 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."

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, 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.