“If the late Steve Jobs was determined to change the way people use technology, with visionary ideas and revolutionary products, Laurene Powell Jobs seems just as determined to change people’s lives in more basic ways,” Brandon Bailey reports for The Mercury News.
“The widow of the Apple co-founder is even more intensely private than her husband, rarely giving interviews and only occasionally appearing in public at his side,” Bailey reports. “And though she has generally kept a low profile, 47-year-old Laurene Jobs could one day emerge as a powerful supporter of the social and progressive causes she has long favored. Forbes recently ranked Steve Jobs as the 39th richest man in America, with estimated wealth of $7 billion.”
Bailey reports, “Laurene Jobs has shown a particular interest in education, applying herself directly to giving disadvantaged students a hand. After volunteering as a mentor several years ago at Belmont’s Carlmont High School, Jobs co-founded and led a successful nonprofit, College Track, which helps minority and low-income kids prepare for college and overcome the many challenges they encounter there.”
MacDailyNews Note: Here’s a particularly poignant photo:
Steve Jobs rests his head against his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, after delivering the keynote address to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Moscone West, June 6, 2011. (Photo: Lea Suzuki / The San Francisco Chronicle)
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
