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Anna Lappe
Author
BIO
Anna Lappe; is a national bestselling author and sought-after public speaker, respected for her work on sustainability, food politics, globalization, and social change. Named one of TIME's "Eco-Who's Who," Anna has been featured in The New York Times, Gourmet, O-The Oprah Magazine, Domino, Food & Wine, Body+Soul, Natural Health, Utne, and Vibe.
Anna's first book, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (Tarcher/Penguin 2002), co-written with her mother Frances Moore Lappe, chronicles courageous social movements around the world addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty. Winner of the Nautilus Award for Social Change, Hope's Edge has been published in several languages and is used in classrooms across the country.
Called "ingenious" by The New York Times, Anna's second book Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (Tarcher/Penguin 2006) combines an expose; of industrial agriculture with chef Bryant Terry's seasonal menus. For the Grub speaking tour, Anna organized a sixty-five city book tour, connecting with grassroots community groups nationwide.
Since 2002, Anna has been collaborating with her mother, Frances Moore Lappe; through their Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute, an international network for research and popular education. They are also co-founders of the Small Planet Fund, which has raised more than half-a-million dollars for democratic social movements worldwide, two of which have won the Nobel Peace Prize since the Fund's founding in 2002.
Anna is the host for MSN's Practical Guide for Healthier Living and the public television series, The Endless Feast. She can be seen on Sundance Channel's BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET and the PBS special, Nourish. At Howdini.com, she is a featured expert on bringing sustainability into your life. Anna has appeared on numerous television networks, including Fox, NBC, PBS, and the CBC in Canada, as well as dozens of nationally syndicated radio programs, such as Martha Stewart Living, National Public Radio's Weekend Edition, Talk to America, and WYNC's Leonard Lopate Show.
Anna frequently lectures on college campuses and to community groups nationwide. Since 2002, she has spoken at more than 250 events, including lectures at Allegheny College, Boston College, Brown University, Columbia University, Dominican University, Northwestern University, University of California at Berkeley, Wellesley, Wesleyan, and Yale University, among other colleges.
Anna's writing has been published in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, and Canada's Globe and Mail. She is a contributing to numerous books, including We Got Issues!: A Young Women's Guide to a Bold, Courageous and Empowered Life (Inner Ocean: September 2006), WorldChanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century (Abrams 2006), and Feeding the Future: How the Battle Over Food Will Change Your Life (Realize Media 2004).
Anna serves as a consultant to foundations, media projects, and non-profit organizations and served as a consulting editor for a Nation magazine special issue on food. She is an active board member of the Center for Media and Democracy and the Community Food Security Coalition, the nation's leading network of food justice and sustainable agriculture organizations.
In 2007, she was honored, with New York Time columnist Nicholas Kristof, by The Missing Peace Project and was featured with Karenna Schiff Gore and Amanda Hearst in Contribute Magazine's "21 Under 40 Making a Difference."
Anna holds an M.A. in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and graduated with honors from Brown University. From 2004 to 2006 she was a Food and Society Policy Fellow, a national program of the WK Kellogg Foundation.
Anna has worked and lived in South Africa, England, and France. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is at work on her third book for adults about the connection between the food system and climate change.
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