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Have tea/coffee and baked goods with Francis Moore Lappe in the Boston/Cambridge area at a time and place that works for both of you.

She will happily engage with you on any subject, from world hunger to corporate accountability to how to get GMOs out of our food. Could this meeting take your work to the next level or give you the rare opportunity to spend time with one of your role models? This kind of chance doesn't come around often!

Frances Moore Lappé is the author or co-author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. Her most recent work, released by Nation Books in September 2011, is EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want, winner of a silver medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Environment/Ecology/Nature category. Jane Goodall called the book "powerful and inspiring.

She is the cofounder of three organizations, including Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy and, more recently, the Small Planet Institute, a collaborative network for research and popular education seeking to bring democracy to life, which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé. Frances and her daughter have also cofounded The Small Planet Fund, which channels resources to democratic social movements worldwide.

Previous to EcoMind, Frances released Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want. In 2008, Getting a Grip along with Diet for a Small Planet were designated as "must reads" for the next U.S. president (by Barbara Kingsolver and Michael Pollan, respectively) in The New York Times Sunday Review of Books. Other recent books include Hope's Edge (written with Anna Lappé), Democracy's Edge, and You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear. Lappé's books have been translated into 15 languages and are used widely in university courses.

In 2008 she received the James Beard Foundation "Humanitarian of the Year" Award for her lifelong impact on the way people all over the world think about food, nutrition, and agriculture. In 2007 Frances became a founding member of the World Future Council, based in Hamburg, Germany. In addition, Frances serves on the International Board of Advisors of Grassroots International and on the the Value [the] Meal Advisory Board of Corporate Accountability International. She is also a member of the Sisters on the Planet network, part of Oxfam America. 

Frances appears frequently as a public speaker and on radio, and is a regular contributor to Huffington Post and Alternet. Articles featuring or written by Frances have also appeared in O: The Oprah Magazine, Harper's, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, People, and more.

Find out more: http://smallplanet.org/about/frances/bio

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