Stacy Malkan is co-founder and managing editor of U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit investigative research group working globally to expose corporate wrongdoing and government failures that threaten our health, environment, and food system. She investigates and reports on pesticide and food industry PR and lobbying operations. Stacy is the author of the award-winning book, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (New Society Publishers, 2007), and co-founder of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a national coalition of health groups that exposed hazardous chemicals in personal care and baby products, and pressured companies to reformulate to safer products. Her work has been featured in Time magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Nature Biotechnology, Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, and many other media outlets. She has appeared in several documentary films including The Human Experiment produced by Sean Penn, Pink Skies, Stink Movie, and Not so Pretty now airing on HBO Max.
Kendra Klein, PhD is Deputy Director for Science at Friends of the Earth where she leads work on food and farming solutions. She is a writer, researcher, and advocate in environmental sustainability, food, agriculture, and environmental health. Prior to joining FOE, she coordinated farm-to-institution work at the California Healthy Food in Health Care campaign and worked at Breast Cancer Action on chemical policy reform and corporate accountability related to pink ribbon fundraising. Kendra has apprenticed on organic farms in California and Hawaii. She is a 2011 Switzer Environmental Fellow and has written for The Guardian, The Nation, Gastronomica, Civil Eats, Food Tank, and EcoWatch and peer-reviewed journals. She holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Miami University of Ohio and a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy & Management from UC Berkeley.
Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author, a renowned advocate for sustainability and justice along the food chain, and an advisor to funders investing in food system transformation. Anna’s research on food systems has taken her to more than 25 countries and 100 US cities, and her TEDx talks and FoodMythBuster videos have been watched nearly 2 million times.
A James Beard Leadership Awardee, Anna is the co-author or author of three books on food, farming, and sustainability and the contributing author to thirteen more. Her most recent book is Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It. Anna’s work has been translated internationally and featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, O magazine, among many other outlets.
One of TIME magazine’s “eco” Who’s-Who, Anna is the founder or co-founder of three national organizations including the Small Planet Institute, Small Planet Fund, and Real Food Media, as well as developing and leading the Food Sovereignty Fund, a global grantmaking program of the Panta Rhea Foundation.
