Chris Gardner
Chris Gardner is an American entrepreneur, investor, stockbroker, motivational speaker, writer, and philanthropist who fought homelessness with his young son in the early 1980s. Gardner's memoir The Pursuit of Happiness was published in May 2006.
Gardner was born on February 9, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Thomas Turner and Betty Jean Gardner. He was the second child and only boy born to Betty Jean. His half-sister Ophelia is from a former union. His sisters Sharon and Kimberly are children of his mother's marriage to Freddie Triplett.
In 2002, Gardner received the NFI's Father of the Year Award. He also received the Los Angeles Commission Against Attacks Against Women (LACAAW) 25th Annual Humanitarian Award and the 2006 Friends of Africa Award from the Continental Chamber of Commerce. In 2008, he gave a speech at Hampton University when his daughter was graduating.
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