About our speaking events and public appearances
Together and separately, Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé speak at conferences, universities, to citizen organizations, associations, and green and sustainable living festivals. The Lappés have guest lectured at dozens of universities, including Brown, Yale, Allegheny College, UC Berkeley, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. See a small sample of venues below.
Special appearances include World Food Day 2005, when Frances was a featured spokesperson for the 60th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. Closed-circuit TV broadcast her interview to hundreds of universities and the public worldwide. In the spring of 2006, Anna organized the Eat Grub! speaking tour, which took her to 48 cities for 65 events reaching more than 15,000 people. Many of these events included her co-author, chef Bryant Terry.
For information about booking Frances and/or Anna as a speaker for your own school or organization, send an email to .
To listen and/or view one of our talks:
“Ending Hunger, Feeding Hope,” University of Alberta’s International Week, February 2009 (Frances). 
Public Forum on the Global Crisis: Food Fuel and Finance, February, 2009, New York University. As well as Frances, speakers include Martin Khor, Director of the South Institute, Geneva and Jun Borras, Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, and Editor of the Journal of Peasant Studies. The forum opens with an introduction on the global crisis by the chair of the session, Barry K. Gills.
“Liberation Ecology,” keynote address for the annual Provender Alliance Conference in Hood River, Oregon, October 2008 (Frances).
“Getting a Grip on Democracy,” Cambridge Forum, March 2008 (Frances).
“Getting a Grip on Hunger,” Worcester State College, November 2007 (Frances).
A few comments about Frances’ speaking events:
“Frances Moore Lappé was amazing, inspiring, informative and hopeful!”
“Frances Moore Lappé was so inspiring. She has a real grasp on the dire situation of the world and yet remains so hopeful. That is what I needed. There are so many doom and gloomers that are not effective because they make people feel they can’t do anything. Frances empowers us all to be the captain of our ships.”
“I appreciated the broad perspective Ms. Lappé took—she painted the big picture for us. Her thoughts on the fact that we need to change our perspectives/mind maps/worldviews was significant for me—it was something I took with me throughout the week—I was able to contrast the positions from which people were speaking and was totally surprised by how some people seem to be firmly set in outdated and destructive mind sets. I was inspired to do more thinking and to ensure that I am more clear about the frame of mind from which I want to view the world, live my life, and promote well-being for others.”
A sample of Lappé events:
Cornell University, Global Development Symposium, Ithaca
Natural Products Expo East, Boston
Bioneers, San Rafael, California
Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge
MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership, Cambridge
Green Festivals — Chicago, Seattle, Washington
Results Annual Conference, Washington
International Federation of Organic Movements, Modena, Italy
4th Albert Howard Memorial Lecture, New Delhi, India
Suffolk University, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Boston
Environmental Educators Association of Washington Annual Conference, Wenatchee, Washington
