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After winning a quarter of a million dollars and breaking the record for the most winnings by a black contestant on ABC’s “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” Nancy A. Redd ’03 returned to Cambridge with less than half of her earnings and nothing flashy or new to her name. All her childhood years spent in the 4-H Club certainly taught Redd to value her head, hands and health—but most of all they must have touched her heart: Redd donated the majority...
...does not have time to rest on her pecuniary laurels. In between reading congratulatory cards and gracefully turning down marriage proposals, Redd has found time to work on writing a book on the SAT gender gap, which will help others tap into her talent for answering multiple choice questions. Obviously, Redd is into sharing these days...
...addition to being a 4-H benefactor, Redd is now also an official 4-H national spokesperson. In a strange series of coincidences, the mother of the program’s national public relations director happened to catch Redd’s mention of 4-H on “Millionaire” and beseeched her daughter to get Redd more heavily involved in the organization. Redd was receptive to the offer and will now travel monthly to deliver speeches to groups of children. This is actually familiar territory for Redd—last spring, she commuted to New York...
...Either Redd is used to praise and gets tired of it quickly or (more likely) she is the most modest game show winner, national spokesperson and soon-to-be-published author ever interviewed. She would much rather talk about others then discuss her own “little” accomplishments. She says she is constantly motivated and inspired by her peers. “There are two types of people here at Harvard: those who are too overwhelmed by others and those who are completely motivated and pushed by the others,” she says, aligning herself with...
...Redd said that she regrets being unable to continue her winning streak...