[On Oprah Winfrey Show]Who/What is his name, man who left his million dollar job to get books for poor kids? ?

Question

Okay it was this episode about oprah giving thanks to people who gave so much back and stuff. and there was this woman about who wanted to colllect pjs like over 20 000 pairs she collected.

and then there was this man an middle aged man, who left his google job (a million dollar one) just to get books to kids who didnt have anything just to learn. so he left his job and collected books from everyone.

i just wanted to know what his name is cause i find him my hero and its a project of mine. so just his name and stuff is great (:

K THANKS GUYS (::

Answer 1

hi - i think you're talking about John Wood - he was a big executive at Microsoft and he left to start an organization called "Room to Read" - here's a link to the site:

http://www.roomtoread.org/about/index.ht...

I hope this helps!! :-)