This year, Evergreen’s Unsoeld Seminar Series is pleased to feature Frances Moore Lappé. Her presentation, Democracy’s Edge -- How to take back the America we love, is free and open to the public. Frances Moore Lappé is the author of fifteen books, including the 1971 three-million-copy bestseller, Diet for a Small Planet. Her most recent work, Democracy’s Edge: Choosing to Save our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life, completes a trilogy which began in 2002 with Hope’s Edge, the 30th anniversary sequel to Diet, written with her daughter, Anna Lappé. In 2004, with Jeffrey Perkins, she published You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear. Currently she and Anna lead the Small Planet Institute (www.smallplanetinstitute.org) based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1975, Lappé and Joseph Collins launched the California-based Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) to educate Americans about the causes of world hunger. In 1990, Lappé co-founded the Center for Living Democracy, a ten-year initiative to accelerate the spread of democratic innovations in which regular citizens contribute to problem solving. She served as founding editor of the Center’s American News Service (1995-2000), which placed stories of citizen problem solving in nearly half the nation’s largest newspapers. Among Lappé’s other books are World Hunger: Twelve Myths and Rediscovering America’s Values. She has received 17 honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions, including the University of Michigan, Kenyon College, Allegheny College, and Lewis and Clark College. In 1987 in Sweden, Lappé became the fourth American to receive the Right Livelihood Award. In 2003 she received the Rachel Carson Award from the National Nutritional Foods Association.