Christa Donohue is the Chief Executive Officer of Read to Them, an organization that uses the power of reading aloud together to build connections across families, schools, and communities to cultivate students’ learning and success. Their vision is to create a culture of literacy in every community.

Read to Them programs show schools and families the wide array of benefits that come from reading aloud together. A child’s positive relationship with literacy provides the basis for a lifetime of learning. Their school-wide reading programs support reading together at home and learning together at school by providing schools with the necessary tools, resources, and guidance to create a culture of literacy in their community.

Since One School, One Book was launched in 2002, Read to Them family literacy programs have expanded to all 50 states, as well as six Canadian provinces and four U.S. Army bases overseas. 3.3K schools (and counting) have celebrated the joy of sharing a book and reading together as a community. Four million books have been added to home libraries after families have read together each night.