Laurie David

For over a decade Laurie David has brought her passion and advocacy to a variety of important issues from global warming to America’s overconsumption of sugar to regenerative agriculture and the dangers of social media.

Laurie executive produced the Academy award-winning An Inconvenient Truth and other socially relevant docs including Fed Up, The Biggest Little Farm and most recently, The Social Dilemma.

Laurie has also written several cookbooks including The Family Cooks and The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids One Meal at a Time. Both books focus on healthy family dinners and importance of enjoying home-cooked meals together. She also coauthored the children’s book The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming, which has been published in over ten languages.

Laurie has received numerous awards and honors, including the Producers Guild of America’s Stanley Kramer Award, a Humanitas Prize Special Award and a Gracie Allen Award. Laurie’s environmental work has been honored with the prestigious Audubon Society’s Rachel Carson Award, the Feminist Majority’s Eleanor Roosevelt Award, Bette Midler’s Green Goddess Award and the NRDC Forces for Nature award.

She lives in Massachusetts on a regenerative farm with her husband, a few cows, a flock of sheep and a dozen chickens. She grows lots of food including a lot of sweet potatoes. She expresses her daily frustrations on twitter. You can follow her @Laurie_David

On Twitter @Laurie_David