Game Changers

Gregory Reiner

Greg grew up in Milford, CT (right outside New Haven) and now is a junior at the University of Pennsylvania. As the Class President each year in his high school (Hamden Hall Country Day School), Greg organized several class-wide community service trips; he and his classmates helped out at New Haven soup kitchens, tutored underprivileged children in the area, cleaned Sleeping Giant State Park, and advertised and implemented a free community florescent light bulb recycling program. At Penn, Greg is the section leader of West Philadelphia Tutoring Project, in which he leads groups of other Penn students to West Philadelphia public schools to tutor and mentor underprivileged students. When Greg returns to Penn, he plans on joining the Social Impact Consulting group, a campus organization that provides pro-bono nonprofit consulting for the West Philadelphia community. Greg feels that because he has been provided with so many opportunities in his life, he wants to give back to the communities that surround him in any way he can.

This summer, Greg is working on filming and editing The Common Good events, and Greg is working on a viral video to get our message out via YouTube. He loves going out into the streets of New York and hearing and filming what ordinary people have to say about the state of the nation, and what they believe must be done to solve the nation’s problems. Greg thinks The Common Good is awesome and couldn’t be happier to help the organization spread its mission of civility in politics, hearing all sides of the story, and putting the country before party. Look out for The Common Good’s YouTube video later in the summer commemorating 9/11 in time for the disaster’s 10th anniversary.