Frances Moore Lappé

Living Democracy, Feeding Hope
Saturday, July 28, 12:30 pm

Busting through the disempowering myths of primitive “marketism,” Frances Moore Lappé shines the light on an emerging ecology of democracy. Sharing lessons from citizens of the world, she shows how people are claiming their voices to align with nature’s laws and to transform democracy into a living practice.

Frances Moore Lappé is author of the 1971 three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet and its 2002 sequel, Hope’s Edge, written with her daughter Anna Lappé. Her two most recent books are Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad (May 2007) and Democracy's Edge. She has also written or co-written twelve other books and is co-founder of  two national organizations: the California-based Institute for Food and Development Policy (known as Food First) and the Center for Living Democracy, a ten-year initiative to accelerate the spread of democratic innovation. She is a contributing editor to Yes! Magazine, a founding councilor of the World Future Council, and sits on the advisory board to the Simple Living television series. Her books have been used in university courses in more than 50 countries. Her life and work have been featured in People Magazine, PBS Now, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Utne Reader, Vegetarian Times and many other outlets; and her articles have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Readers' Digest, Chemistry, Le Monde Diplomatique, National Civic Review, and Harpers. Lappé has received 17 honorary doctorates and in 1987 became the fourth American to receive the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the Alternative Nobel.