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"Frances Moore Lappé captivated, enlightened and motivated the audience. Every American needs to hear from Lappé."

- Professor Juliet Schor, Boston College

RECENT EVENTS

Hope is Power: Pathways to Living Democracy

Frances spoke at Auburn University about our crisis of democracy and pathways to achieving a living democracy.

Arizona State University

Frances spoke on a panel for the 2024 Democracy in a Hotter Time Book Launch at ASU, addressing the question "Can democracy stand the heat?"

El Paso Community College

Frances Moore Lappé joins students and faculty at El Paso Community College to deliver a keynote address on major challenges facing our food systems, environment, and democracy, and sources of hope for our collective future.

Embracing Our Emergency

Frances Moore Lappé joins leaders in the climate change movement in the "Embracing Our Emergency" webinar series. They discuss the current crisis our planet faces and what you can do for yourself, others, and the Earth.

Sustainable Stow

Frances Moore Lappé joins Sustainable Stow and the Randall Library for an exciting virtual discussion on "Diet for a Small Planet"! She discusses how your diet and food choices affect climate change and the big health and environmental benefits of plant-centered eating.

Solutions Summit 2023

Frances Moore Lappé joins other solutionaries as they explore the roots of the U.S. democracy crisis and ways in which we can move forward.

NewViews: Food Sustainability & Equity: Inspiring Collective Responsibility

Frances Moore Lappé joins NewViews for an engaging discussion exploring the intersection of food policy, innovation, and entrepreneurship as the world navigates the complexities of ensuring food as a human right.

The Harris Center: How Food Choices Affect the Planet & Your Health with Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé joins the Harris Center for Conservation Education in an interview about the power of individual food choices. Lappé details how these choices can help foster a living democracy and make for a better tomorrow.

Celebrating 40 Years of Sustainability: Transforming Our Relationship with the Earth and Each Other

Frances Moore Lappé joins the Alliance for Sustainability for its Fortieth Anniversary Celebration to discuss the importance of plant-centered diets for a sustainable future.

NYU Steinhardt, "Diet for a Small Planet: 50 Years On with Frances Moore Lappé"

Frances Moore Lappé joins Marion Nestle - molecular biologist, Amy Bentley-historian, and David Kanter - associate professor of environmental studies at NYU for a roundtable discussion of the impact of her bestselling book, Diet for a Small Planet, and how much has changed in the 50 years since its initial publication.

City University of New York Graduate Center, "Frances Moore Lappé in Conversation with John Torpey"

Frances joins John Torpey, director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, to discuss her thoughts on creating a living democracy and how everyday people can reverse democracy’s decline.

Common Ground Country Fair Keynote

In her keynote address at the Common Ground Country Fair, Frances
explained how the food choices we make each day connect us to humanity’s biggest challenges, from needless hunger to diet-related disease to the climate crisis and the undermining of democracy.
Recording coming soon.

Open Democracy

Daring Democracy authors Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen discuss our foundational democratic needs, the power of courage, and how to strengthen America's growing Democracy Movement.

San Mateo County Libraries Virtual Author Talk

Frances and Anna Lappé discuss Diet for a Small Planet 50th Anniversary Edition, and audience Q&A.

INFRA Annual Conference

Frances and Anna participate in INFRA's 2022 Conference -
Building a Resilient Future: A Mother-Daughter Cross-Generational Conversation About Sustainability and Hope in a Time of Crisis

Reading Public Library Q&A with Frances Moore Lappé

In honor of the 50th anniversary edition of Diet for a Small Planet, Frances Moore Lappé shares how plant-centered eating can help restore our damaged ecology, address the climate crisis, and move us toward real democracy.

Frontiers of Democracy Conference

Frontiers of Democracy is an annual conference hosted by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University since 2009. Frances Moore Lappé was a panel speaker for the "Fixing American Democracy From the Outside In – Storming the Hill" breakout session.

Bay Area Book Festival

A conversation about Anna and Frances Lappé's inspirational journey in the food justice and democracy movements as a mother-daughter duo

St. Joseph's College of Maine

A discussion of "It's Not Too Late: Tackling the Roots of Our Global Crises" in celebration of Earth Week

RI community food bank speaking

Food Bank CEO Andrew Schiff and Frances held an important and timely discussion covering food insecurity, poverty, farming, democracy and so much more.

Young Men’s Business Club (YMBC) of Birmingham, AL

Frances' spoke with John Saxon and the audience about the "Diet for a Small Planet" 50-anniversary edition.

Banyen Books and Sound

Frances and Anna Lappé speak about Diet for a Small Planet (Revised and updated), 50th Anniversary Edition, with Banyen Books' Hosted by Ross McKeachie

The 92nd Street Y

Join Mark Bittman and Frances Moore Lappé for a conversation about the 50th Anniversary Edition of Diet for a Small Planet

My Hero Project

Frances chats with Eva Haller Salon about the 50 years since she warned us to take care of our Small Planet. Frances' message is still timely & even more important than ever as global leaders discuss climate change at COP26 in Glasgow.

IU Patten Lecture

"Hiding in the Climate Crisis: Honest Hope in Democratic Action."
It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the simultaneous political, economic, and climate crises upon us, but Frances digs into their interacting roots so we can be sure that in attacking them our actions matter. Lappé shows us how our peculiarly brutal form of capitalism—enabling Big Money’s corruption of our democracy—has brought on climate catastrophe.

"It was such a pleasure to have Frances come speak to us at NYU. She was charming and engaging, and despite acknowledging the vast complexities of the modern food system, her talk was uplifting. She is not an optimist, as she explained, but a possibiiist; the audience was duly inspired."

Chad Ludington, Visiting Associate Professor of Food Studies at New York University

Selected universities at which Frances has spoken

University of Delaware

UC Santa Cruz

Eckerd College

Chatham University

Miami Dade College

University of Michigan

Framingham State

Vassar College

Carleton College

Ursinus College

Middlebury College

Ohio University

Connecticut College

Brooklyn College

Salem State

Mt Holyoke

Northeastern

Utah Valley University

Depauw University

Oregon State University

Manchester College

Young Harris College

Stanford University

UC Berkeley

UMass Amherst

Smith College

Rivier University

University of Oregon

NYU

University of Hawaii

Suffolk University

Regis College

Lesley University

University of Waterloo

Denison University

Clark University

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Selected universities at which Frances has spoken