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Anna Blythe Lappé is a national bestselling author and renowned public speaker on food politics, sustainable agriculture, 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, and Vibe, among other outlets. In 2007, she was honored, along 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’s first book Hope’s Edge (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, including 2005 Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement. 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. Her second book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (Tarcher/Penguin 2006), with chef Bryant Terry and a foreword by Eric Schlosser, offers readers ideas and hands-on tools and menus to create healthy lives for themselves and their communities.

With her mother Frances Moore Lappé, Anna leads the Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute, a collaborative network for research and popular education, and the Small Planet Fund, which has raised nearly 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 a co-host of the public television series, The Endless Feast, and has appeared on more than one hundred radio and television shows. She can be seen on Sundance Channel’s Big Ideas for a Small Planet as well on Fox, NBC, PBS, and the CBC in Canada. She has also appeared on dozens of nationally syndicated radio programs, including National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, The Diane Rehm Show, Talk to America, and WYNC’s Leonard Lopate Show with Ruth Reichl.

Anna is a frequent lecturer and has spoken at dozens of universities and colleges across the country, including Allegheny College, Boston College, Brown University, Columbia University, New York University, University of California at Berkeley, Wesleyan, and Yale University.