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...Conscious Foodie Anna Lapp?? 32, New York City...
CLAIM TO FAME Since co-founding the Small Planet Institute and Fund with her mother, author Frances Moore Lapp??, the Brooklyn resident has been raising money for environmental organizations around the world, like a quarter of a million dollars for Kenya's Green Belt Movement, which has planted 30 million trees since 1977. As a Food and Society Policy fellow at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, she travels the country educating Americans about the connection between food policy and public health...
...BREAK Raised in Oakland, Calif., Lapp?? studied education at Brown University and spent a year teaching history in South Africa. She earned a master's degree in economic and political development from Columbia University, turning her thesis into a book about the root causes of hunger and poverty, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, co-written with her mom. "Globally, we're producing enough food not only to be well fed but to get chubby," says Lapp??. "If more citizens rather than corporations had a say in decisions being made about our food, there wouldn...