Anna Lappé
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Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author and public speaker, respected for her work on sustainability, food politics, globalization, and social change. Named one of TIME’s “Eco-Who’s Who,” Lappé has been featured in The New York Times, Gourmet, O-The Oprah Magazine, Domino, Food & Wine, Body+Soul, Natural Health, Utne, and Vibe.
. She 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
. Lappé has worked and lived in South Africa, England, and France. She currently lives with her husband in Brooklyn, New York where she is at work on her third book.
From 2004 to 2006 she was a Food and Society Policy Fellow, a national program of the WK Kellogg Foundation.
With her mother, Anna Lappé is a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute
, a collaborative network for research and popular education. Since 2002, Lappé and other Institute principals have published five books—two of which are national bestsellers—along with numerous articles, book chapters, and three mini-documentaries. The Lappés have participated in more than 400 public events, reaching more than 25,000 people, and appeared on numerous television and radio programs, traveled to more than a dozen countries for research, and contributed to boards of national and international initiatives.
Also in 2002, Lappé co-founded the Small Planet Fund to support movements bringing to life citizen-led solutions to hunger, poverty, and environmental devastation around the world. Since its founding, the Fund has raised more than half-a-million dollars for its emergency grantees and core grantees, two of which have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize since the Fund’s founding.
Lappé has given more than 300 lectures or public talks as a keynote speaker, guest lecturer, and workshop leader at universities and conferences around the country. Universities appearances include: Allegheny College, Brown, Chatham University, Columbia, Mt. Holyoke College, and Yale, among others.
Lappé is currently working on her third book about food, climate change, and the future of eating to be published in 2010 by Bloomsbury. In conjunction with her new book project, Lappé launched the Take a Bite out of Climate Change project in 2008.
Lappé serves as a consultant to foundations, media projects, and non-profit organizations. She is an active board of the Center for Media and Democracy
, Rainforest Action Network
, and a former board member of the Community Food Security Coalition
, the nation’s leading network of food justice and sustainable agriculture organizations.
Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (Tarcher/Penguin 2002), co-written with her mother Frances Moore Lappé, 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.
Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (Tarcher/Penguin 2006) combines an exposé of industrial agriculture with chef Bryant Terry
’s seasonal menus.
Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It (Bloomsbury 2010) describes how current industrial agricultural practices contribute to global climate change and offers a prescription for climate-friendly eating.
Lappé has also contributed to the following books:
Ten Excellent Reasons to Think Twice about Eating Meat, ed. Moby (New York: The New Press, forthcoming 2007)
Feeding the Future, From Fat to Famine: How to Solve the World's Food Crisis
eds. Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon (Toronto: Anansi Press, 2004)
Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America
ed. John de Graaf (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2003)
We Got Issues!: A Young Women's Guide to a Bold, Courageous and Empowered Life eds. Rha Goddess and J-Love Calderon (Novato, California: Inner Ocean: 2006)
WorldChanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century, ed. Alex Steffen (Harry N. Abrams Books: 2006)
Democracy’s Edge, Frances Moore Lappé (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005)
You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear, Frances Moore Lappé and Jeff Perkins (New York City: Tarcher/Putnam, 2004)
Foreword for: How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas, Joe Collins, Stephan DeZerega, Zahara Heckscher (New York: Putnam, 2002)
Biography
Lappé is the daughter of activist Frances Moore LappéFrances Moore Lappé
Frances Moore Lappé is the author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. She is the co-founder of three national organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty and environmental crises, as well as solutions now emerging worldwide through what she calls...
. She holds an M.A. in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
’s School of International and Public Affairs and graduated with honors from Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
. Lappé has worked and lived in South Africa, England, and France. She currently lives with her husband in Brooklyn, New York where she is at work on her third book.
From 2004 to 2006 she was a Food and Society Policy Fellow, a national program of the WK Kellogg Foundation.
With her mother, Anna Lappé is a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute
Small Planet Institute
-Founding and Mission:Small Planet Institute is a nonprofit organization founded by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé in 2001. Its mission is "to help define, articulate, and further an historic transition: a worldwide shift from the dominant, failing notion of democracy as a set of fixed...
, a collaborative network for research and popular education. Since 2002, Lappé and other Institute principals have published five books—two of which are national bestsellers—along with numerous articles, book chapters, and three mini-documentaries. The Lappés have participated in more than 400 public events, reaching more than 25,000 people, and appeared on numerous television and radio programs, traveled to more than a dozen countries for research, and contributed to boards of national and international initiatives.
Also in 2002, Lappé co-founded the Small Planet Fund to support movements bringing to life citizen-led solutions to hunger, poverty, and environmental devastation around the world. Since its founding, the Fund has raised more than half-a-million dollars for its emergency grantees and core grantees, two of which have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize since the Fund’s founding.
Lappé has given more than 300 lectures or public talks as a keynote speaker, guest lecturer, and workshop leader at universities and conferences around the country. Universities appearances include: Allegheny College, Brown, Chatham University, Columbia, Mt. Holyoke College, and Yale, among others.
Lappé is currently working on her third book about food, climate change, and the future of eating to be published in 2010 by Bloomsbury. In conjunction with her new book project, Lappé launched the Take a Bite out of Climate Change project in 2008.
Lappé serves as a consultant to foundations, media projects, and non-profit organizations. She is an active board of the Center for Media and Democracy
Center for Media and Democracy
The Center for Media and Democracy is a non-profit investigative reporting group. The CMD gives analysis and opinion on policies such as the economy, environment and national security...
, Rainforest Action Network
Rainforest Action Network
Rainforest Action Network is an environmental organization based in San Francisco, California, USA. The organization was founded by Randy "Hurricane" Hayes and Mike Roselle in 1985, with the financial help of Fund for Wild Nature....
, and a former board member of the Community Food Security Coalition
Community Food Security Coalition
The Community Food Security Coalition is a North American non-profit made up of 325 member organizations who focus on social and economic justice, the environment, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, community development, labor, anti-poverty, and anti-hunger initiatives...
, the nation’s leading network of food justice and sustainable agriculture organizations.
Books
Bryant Terry
Bryant Terry is an eco-chef, food justice activist, and author. He is currently a 2008-2010 Food and Society Policy Fellow, a national Program of the W.K. Kellogg and Fair Food Foundations...
’s seasonal menus.
Lappé has also contributed to the following books:
eds. Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon (Toronto: Anansi Press, 2004)
ed. John de Graaf (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2003)