Lauren Bush Lauren
Founder, FEED
Lauren Bush Lauren
Founder, FEED
Biography
Lauren Bush Lauren is the founder and CEO of FEED, the impact driven lifestyle brand, making products that help feed the children of the world. A native of Texas, Lauren attended Princeton University where she majored in Anthropology. As a sophomore, Lauren had the opportunity to travel with the UN World FOOD Programme. While visiting regions across Central America, Asia and Africa, Lauren witnessed firsthand the realities of poverty and hunger that people are facing all over the world. Using this experience as an inspiration, Lauren found FEED as a tangible way for her peers to make an impact in fighting childhood hunger.
Across a variety of categories, from handbags to home goods to jewelry, the sale of each FEED product provides direct meal donations to children in need across the globe. Through on the ground partners, FEED has provided more than 100 million meals to-date since 2007. In 2017, FEED opened its first retail experience, The FEED Shop & Cafe, in Brooklyn NY. With the purchase of every single item in The Feed Shop & Cafe (products and cafe cuisine included), meals will be directly donated to children in need.
Speech Topics
Making a Difference & Leaving a Legacy
How do you make a difference and impact the lives of people now as well as in the future? It is an overwhelming prospect that Lauren Bush Lauren helps to clarify and simplify in this inspiring speech. As the founder and CEO of FEED, a brand that has provided over 100 million meals to children in need, Lauren Bush Lauren is an expert at finding tangible ways in your life to benefit those in need. She shares her message that everyone can change the lives of others and leave a legacy.
Moving Philanthropy Forward
Lauren Bush Lauren’s company, FEED, has a unique structure within the social business movement. After the 2008 recession, she noticed a trend of conscious consumerism and that people have begun to look for companies to create change. In this speech, using her “do good brand” as inspiration, Lauren Bush Lauren shares her breakthrough ideas about the future of philanthropy and how it is directly tied to consumerism, meaningful purchases and ethical businesses.
Hunger & Food Systems Issues
One in nine people around the world are hungry and hundreds of millions of people do not know where their next meal is coming from. As a member of the UN’s World Food Program, Lauren Bush Lauren is a first-hand witness to the devastating effects that hunger has on people around the world. In this speech, Lauren Bush Lauren dives into hunger and food system issues that are plaguing millions around the world. She says that it’s not a matter of “curing hunger,” but instead, how to solve hunger through food, nutrition and equitable access. Lauren Bush Lauren enlightens audiences with details on world hunger and provides expert advice on how we can be a part of the solution.