Berkeley, Foundation since 2010 . Orth has also served on the Boards of Internews and the National Council of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. Orth and her family have vacationed on Nantucket Island since 1993 where their neighbors included television personality Fred Rodgers. Orth is a supporter of the Peace Corps. For the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, she produced a series of video postcards celebrating the organization. Philanthropy Orth developed an interest in Colombia while a Peace Corps Volunteer in Medellin following college. While there, she built a school the community named for her: Escuela Marina Orth. In 2005, at the request of the Secretary of Education of Medellin, she founded two non-profit foundations: The Marina Orth Foundation, a 501c3 public charity in the United States, and Fundacion Marina Orth in Colombia. The Marina Orth Foundation serves 21 schools, and each K-5 primary school student their own laptop through the One Laptop Per Child program. The program emphasizes STEM, robotics, English and leadership. More than 13,000 students have been involved with the program. Computer coding is taught at the third-grade level and all students are taught robotics beginning in kindergarten. International volunteers help to teach English and organize extra-curricular activities. The foundation has sent the school's robotics teams to international competitions. Books Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History (1999) The Importance of Being Famous: Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity-Industrial Complex (2004) Awards and honors National Magazine Award for group coverage of the arts while at Newsweek (1973) National Magazine Award nomination for her story in Vanity Fair on Arianna Huffington and Michael Huffington titled "Arianna's Virtual Candidate" (1994) National Alumnae Achievement Award from the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority (2006) Emily Couric Women's Leadership Award, Charlottesville, Virginia (2012) Order of San Carlos, Colombia's highest civilian honor for outstanding service from Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (2015) McCall-Pierpaoli Humanitarian of the Year Award from Refugees International (2015) Distinguished Alumnus from the Cal Alumni Club of Washington D.C (2016) Doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of San Francisco (2017) Campanile Excellence in Achievement Award from the University of California at Berkeley (2021) References External links Living people American women journalists Peace Corps volunteers University of California, Berkeley alumni Journalists from Washington, D.C. Vanity Fair (magazine) people Kappa Kappa Gamma Newsweek people 1943 births