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Anna Lappé. Anna began developing a passion for understanding the world with a global perspective at the ripe young age of three when she accompanied her mother on a research trip to Guatemala. In partnership with her mother, Anna has helped bring to life Hope's Edge, a sequel as much for her generation as for her mother's.
Anna's writing has appeared in the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, and the Globe and Mail as well as many other publications. She is a regular contributor to the online news site Guerrilla News Network (www.gnn.tv). She is also a regular radio commentator, having appeared on dozens of radio shows across the country, from pirate radio Santa Cruz to National Public Radio's Weekend Edition and the Diane Rehm Show.
As a public speaker, she has lectured widely on food, politics, globalization, and the media, including appearances at Allegheny College, Boston University, Brown University, New York University, University of Connecticut, University of Colorado at Boulder, and many other colleges and universities.
She holds a Masters degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and a BA with honors from Brown University. At 29, she has traveled to more than 20 countries and lived and worked in Thailand, South Africa, England, and France.
In 2002 she was named the first recipient of the Bioneers Youth Award, honoring effective and innovative social and environmental activists given by one of the country's foremost environmental organizations, the Collective Heritage Institute.
In 2002 she co-founded the Small Planet Fund to help raise resources for social movements profiled in Hope's Edge fighting hunger and poverty at their roots around the world.
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Last updated july 7, 2006.
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