Social Impact Heroes: “How Leslie Gang and Hindi’s Libraries is providing reading material to children who are in an environment where they might not be exposed to any books at all”

Over the summer, a school in Oklahoma had some classrooms destroyed by flooding. We came across one of the teachers who shared her story on Twitter and was requesting book donations from anyone and everyone who could help. To see the literary community unite was truly incredible. Along with several authors and publishers, Hindi’s Libraries sent book donations to this needy teacher who was then able to provide her children with hundreds of books in her classroom library just in time for the back-to-school season.

As part of my series about “individuals and organizations making an important social impact”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Leslie Gang.

Leslie Gang is the Director of Communications & Exec. Admin. Asst. at The Brandeis School in Lawrence, NY. Gang has a BS in…