Linda Hess's guest appearances

Linda Hess

Upaya Zen Center's Dharma Podcast

America Speaks Podcast

Jaipur Bytes

Daniel Kahneman

Bill Gates

Steven Pinker

Colson Whitehead

Michael Puett

Elizabeth Gilbert

Pico Iyer

Noam Chomsky

Frank Dikötter

Patrick Brown

Yann Martel

Mark Haddon

Jonathan Safran Foer

Howard Jacobson

Robert Harris

OwlTail

Scholar-translator Linda Hess in conversation with Jaipur Bytes host Lakshya Datta. In this podcast-exclusive conversation, Linda talks to Lakshya about what drew her to come to India in her 20s, how she fell in love with Kabir and his words, and why 500 year old songs created by an illiterate poet are still relevant today. Linda’s publications include "The Bijak of Kabir", "Singing Emptiness: Kumar Gandharva Performs the Poetry of Kabir", and "Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India". She has also written about Tulsidas and the Ramlila of Ramnagar. She taught in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University for 21 years, retiring in 2017. Linda will be speaking at JLF Colorado on Sept 21.

Scholar-translator Linda Hess in conversation with Jaipur Bytes host Lakshya Datta. In this podcast-exclusive conversation, Linda talks to Lakshya about what drew her to come to India in her 20s, how she fell in love with Kabir and his words, and why 500 year old songs created by an illiterate poet are still relevant today. Linda’s publications include "The Bijak of Kabir", "Singing Emptiness: Kumar Gandharva Performs the Poetry of Kabir", and "Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India". She has also written about Tulsidas and the Ramlila of Ramnagar. She taught in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University for 21 years, retiring in 2017. Linda will be speaking at JLF Colorado on Sept 21.

The Legacy of Kabir: A conversation with Linda Hess 

Linda Hess’s crusade started with her holding a plate. She was at a memorial service. Someone was packing up the meal that she thought was meant for the family. The excess food was being plated for seniors that were around the corner. Linda went along to distribute this food and saw first hand the dire circumstances of people falling through the cracks in the middle of a metropolitan downtown area. These senior citizens  had nothing in their cupboards but cat food in one and no sheets on her bed and nothing in her closet. Linda asked herself “how do you walk away, how do you walk away?” She couldn’t.  40 % of the food produced in this country never gets to a food table We are a nation of over consumption in every which way you look at it. We are the wealthiest nation in the world. We have hunger and we have extra food. We simply don’t realize that one person's extra could make all the difference for a person who is hungry. And what Urban Harvester has done is become the center-point. Linda Hess and Urban Harvester are determined to change hunger in our nation.

Linda Hess’s crusade started with her holding a plate. She was at a memorial service. Someone was packing up the meal that she thought was meant for the family. The excess food was being plated for seniors that were around the corner. Linda went along to distribute this food and saw first hand the dire circumstances of people falling through the cracks in the middle of a metropolitan downtown area. These senior citizens  had nothing in their cupboards but cat food in one and no sheets on her bed and nothing in her closet. Linda asked herself “how do you walk away, how do you walk away?” She couldn’t.  40 % of the food produced in this country never gets to a food table We are a nation of over consumption in every which way you look at it. We are the wealthiest nation in the world. We have hunger and we have extra food. We simply don’t realize that one person's extra could make all the difference for a person who is hungry. And what Urban Harvester has done is become the center-point. Linda Hess and Urban Harvester are determined to change hunger in our nation.

CHANGING THE SYSTEM FROM FARM TO FORK WITH LINDA HESS FOUNDER OF URBAN HARVESTER