Robert Freiri has been the Executive Director of Gateway Center of Monterey County since February 2020. Robert has been a nonprofit Executive Director for 25 years including seven years as a Habitat for Humanity Executive Director and a Nonprofit Manager for 35 years. He has also been a Non-Public School Principal. He has been involved in many community boards and committees including the Nonprofit Alliance of Monterey County (NAMC), Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce, Loma Prieta Community Foundation, Loma Prieta School Oversight Committee, and the Role Model Program. Robert was a member of Leadership Monterey County Class of 2022 and Leadership San Benito County Class of 2010.

Robert is currently a member of the Monterey Rotary and was the Hollister Rotary Club President in 2014. Robert has also served in other Rotary capacities: Foundation Chair, Community Service Chair, World Service Chair and Scholarship Committee. “The Rotary motto, 'Service Above Self,’ is not just a motto for me, it’s a way of life.”

His wife of 34 years, Bridget works for the Loma Prieta School District, daughter Christiana, who has severe Dyslexia and struggled with school until high school is an Assistant Principal in charge of Special Education at a Charter School in Walnut Creek, and his son Nicholas, who has Dyspraxia, was told by a Doctor at the age of eight, not to play sports, not only was he on Championship teams in baseball and football, he does Sports Analytics for the University of California Berkeley Athletics Department.

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