PERSPECTIVES ON Food Justice and the Young African American Farmer

06/03/19 • 21 min

This podcast focuses on the notion of Food Justice for listeners who may not be aware of the impact the food industry has on American culture and how that impact truly affects the American farmer and young African American farmers in particular.
Jillian Hishaw is Founder & CEO of Family. Agriculture. Resource. Management Services better known nationally as F.A.R.M.S. With 15 years of experience as an Agriculture Lawyer she is well versed in the area of civil rights, as well as agricultural law. She is the author of "Don't Bet the Farm on Medicaid." For more information please visit her website: http://www.30000acres.org and for more information about her practice visit: www.jillianhishaw.com.
Also sharing is Ryan Pressley! Having learned farming as a boy, this former professional baseball player, returned to his first love of FARMING in 2006 when he founded RP Farms. Originally consisting of more than 370 acres of everything from cattle, hay, turf grass and vegetables. He currently is chief operator of Farms 2 U farm and produce company growing Lima beans, peas and tomatoes.
Your host is Creator and Executive Producer of Perspectives On, Dr. Lairalaine M. White, a Community Development Activist. As Founder and President of LMW Enterprises, a private consulting firm assisting both profit and non-profits with organizational development, she specializes in housing, advocacy, public policy, community assessment, and strategic planning.

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This podcast features two dynamic and unique experts in the realm of Geography and culture both of whom have REDEFINING PERSPECTIVES ON food and culture! The focus here is on understanding the intersection between impacts on everyday talk and culture. Both introduced the term positionality as a factor that impacts, culture and the systems that regulate them through an approach called kitchen table reflexivity – an exploration of an individual's positionality and its relationship to their research carried out through formal and informal conversations with others.

Dr. Ellen Kohl is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies currently at St. Mary's College in Maryland, with a specific interest in how multiple, intersecting forms of oppression impact the human-environment. In addition to Justice, nature, Policy and Urban Georgraphy, she has done extensive research into the social movement strategies that communities engage to create positive change.

Dr. Priscilla McCutcheon is Assistant Professor of Georgraphy and Pan African Studies at the University of Kentucky, her primary research focus was on the intersection of agriculture/food, racial identity formation and religion. In addition, her other research interest include Black georgraphies, Sustainable Agriculture, spirituality and religion. For more information about The Sister's Perspective visit our website at http://TheSistersPerspective.com