Reese Witherspoon is actively involved in advocacy organizations.
 She is a longtime supporter of Save the Children, an organization that helps provide children around the world with education, healthcare and emergency aid
== Early life and education ==Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976, at Southern Baptist Hospital, in New Orleans, Louisiana, while her father, John Draper Witherspoon, was a student at Tulane University medical school

