Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron is on the cover of the September issue of Vogue. Of course, there’s lots of stuff about fashion, but she also talks about her more philanthropic efforts:
“This is the Asian club right here,” she says, introducing the head of her film division and the woman in charge of her Africa Outreach Project. The two Japanese-Americans, Beth Kono and Ashlee Irish, started out as assistants and then took on more and more responsibilities: Kono develops scripts for Denver & Delilah Films (named for two of Theron’s dogs), and Irish keeps track of Theron’s charity work; lately it has focused on equipping trailers with computers and mobile health clinics, which then travel continuously through remote parts of South Africa, where teenagers have a nearly 50 percent chance of contracting HIV during their lifetime.
Charlize is starting to sound like a one-woman Former Assistants Done Good factory. More celebrities should follow her lead.
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