Ashley Judd is releasing her memoir in spring 2011 from Ballantine.

Her memoir will recall both painful childhood memories and Judd’s humanitarian work as a global ambassador for PSI (Population Services International)/Youth AIDS. The book’s foreword will be written by the New York Times columnists: Nicholas Kristof, co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

In a press release, Judd commented: “I hope that this book will be a call to action as well as a memoir. . . By sharing my own story along with those of the beautiful and resilient people I’ve met in the most desperate places, I want to show how the change we seek in the world must start within us.”

As we reported earlier, Judd is also in talks to star in the film version of Adriana Trigiani’s wildly popular Big Stone Gap series. Judd is also working toward a Mid-Career MPA at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. This is certainly one busy (and talented!) woman.