Press Kit

Individual press kit selections for Frances Moore Lappé are available here for downloading in PDF format.

Selections below include biographies, a bibliography, list of recent appearances, selected speech topics, news coverage, as well as selected published articles. An Honoraria Schedule with information on speaking fees is available upon request.

To request a press kit for Anna Lappé, please email Abhaya Kaufmaun at abhaya[at]smallplanet.org.

Frances Moore Lappé:

Biography
Bibliography
Selected Speech Topics
Selected Past Speech Titles
Past Speaking Engagements
Honorary Degrees
Speaking Reviews

Writings:

"The genius of Wangari Maathai," by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé, International Herald Tribune, October 14, 2004

"A better way to feed the hungry," by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 22, 2002

"Dispel the Myth That Cheap Food Comes Without High Costs," by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé, Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2002

"People, Not Technology, Are the Key to Ending Hunger," by Frances Moore Lappé, Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2001

"Fed up with unhealthy food," by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé, The Star-Ledger, February 5, 2001

 

To book speaking engagements with Frances Moore Lappé, please contact Jess Wilson via email.

To book speaking engagements with Anna Lappé, please contact Abhaya Kaufman via email.


The Getting a Grip blog always has the latest news, links, and thoughts from Frances and the Small Planet team.

Watch Frances discuss the food/democracy crisis on Democracy NOW!

Watch a short film about Frances shown at the James Beard Foundation Awards Humanitarian of the Year Award ceremony. Read her acceptance speech here.

Read and comment on Frances's Huffington Post blogs.

Read Frances's reflections on 1968, "the year I decided to find out why people were hungry in the world," in AARP the Magazine. An extended on-line interview can also be found here.

See Frances in Gourmet magazine as one of "25 People Who Changed Food in America".

Watch Frances in "A Hungry Planet," a special segment on the world hunger crisis from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's evening news broadcast, "The National."

Listen to the May 4th podcast of CBC Sunday Edition featuring Frances on food prices and poverty.

Visit Anna's "Take a Bite out of Climate Change" website.

Hear Anna on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show, discussing whether higher food prices might mean that we'll eat healthier food.

Read Anna weighing in on "Some Good News on Food Prices" (NY Times).

Read "The Only Fitting Tribute," Frances's take on the New Deal written for The Nation and found also on CommonDreams.org.

Read "Hanging with Frances Moore Lappé" (Boston Globe)

Read Anna's op-ed in Seattle Post Intelligencer on food and climate change; hear her on Seattle radio

Watch Anna as your guru for fair trade and safe beauty products on Howdini.com

• Thanks to everyone who made our annual fund-raising gala a success! Watch The Invisible Revolution, a film about those your investment helps to support.

Watch Getting a Grip on Money & Politics, Frances' & Anthony's film about the "Best Kept Secret in America!"

Read Anna's blog as she continues the call to Eat Grub!

• Frances's first book, Diet for a Small Planet, was chosen among 75 Books by Women whose Words have Changed the World

Read a prepublication version of Frances' 'World Hunger: Roots and Remedies,' from the upcoming Oxford title A Sociology of Food and Nutrition.


Read more about Frankie’s book, Democracy’s Edge

Read “Creating Real Prosperity” by Frances, in Yes! Magazine and AlterNet

Read "Big Apple to go Trans-Fat Free" by Anna in Alternet

Read News from Brazil’s Zero-Hunger Campaign

• Hear Anna with Ruth Reichl on The Leonard Lopate show.

• Listen to Frances on PBS Now

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Thursday, July 24, 2008, 5:00PM
Keynote Speech
Vermont Law School's Food, Fuel, and the Future of Farming Conference
South Royalton, VT
Anna

Saturday, July 26, 2008, 3:30-5:00PM
Workshop with Frances Moore Lappé
Kickapoo Country Fair
Organic Valley National Headquarters
One Organic Way
La Farge, WI
Anna

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