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

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This installment of our month long series on Food Justice and the American farmer. John Wesley Boyd, Jr. gives us an on location, candid interview.  The recording documents briefly his encounter of racial discrimination with the USDA and how he emerged as one of the real heroes of the justice movement for African American Farmers.  Tune in and listen Listen to the voice of this hero’s testimony of what set him on the path of leadership in fighting discrimination from the federal government as only he knows how to tell it!  For more information about Perspectives On visit our website at http://TheSistersPerspective.com

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This episode features the Rev. Dr. Gerald Durley, respected theologian and environmentalist, Rev. Dele mentor to Earthkeepers around the world is a former Permaculture professor at the College of William and Mary, serving the North Carolina Creation Justice Network; UCC Council for Climate Justice; National Congress of Black American Indians. She is ordained in the UCC with Baptist affiliations and also Rev. Alan Jenkins of Oakdale Presbyterian Church in Atlanta Georgia and environmentalist.  Each bring a unique and energetic perspective to environment from a theological perspective and each speaking truths on the impact humanity is having on the climate change and preservation.  The hosts are Paula Ann Granston, student at Johns Hopkins University majoring in Public Health and Rev. Dr. Lairalaine Morgan White, founder and executive producer of the Perspectives On.

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This episode focuses on the crisis of health access and awareness among the Latin population in the United States.  Our guest Gabriella Betancourt has been Deputy Director of Research and Evaluation for the Latino Commission on AIDS since 2015.  She is currently a Doctoral candidate in the area Public Health with more than 10 years of experience in the area of research and epidemiology.  

She comes to give us her PERSPECTIVE on the incidence and accessibility of health care within the Latin American community along with Special Public Health Correspondent Paula Ann Granston and Rev. Dr. Lairalaine White - Host.

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This segment of Perspectives On focuses on female entrepreneurship and is hosted by Lairalaine White and co-hosted by Paula Granston!  The three women highlighted have each proven themselves as innovators, each have successfully created, organized and manage an enterprise.

All three from within the state of Georgia....which is important because, according to Bond Street, Georgia ranks No. 1 in urban cities within the U.S. for fastest growth in the number of firms owned and operated by women. 

A study conducted by Intuit concluded a that “more than a third of businesses in Atlanta are owned by women” and “ranks sixth in the top cities for female entrepreneurs.”  

As sole proprietor of Atlanta’s Slutty Vegan, Pinky Cole has helped to literally put Ralph David Abernathy Blvd. back on the map!  She has already been featured in Forbes Magazine and the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s ATL CLOSE UP.  As a graduate of Clark Atlanta University with a degree in Mass Communication, she was a Television Producer and casting director before turning her talents to entrepreneurship! 

Dr. Natoshia Anderson is CEO and Founder of Smart STEM.  The genuine love for teaching and learning motivated an organizational focus on retaining girls and young women in STEM.  She is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Southern Polytechnic State University, and holds both an MBA and doctorate degree from the University of Phoenix. 

Creative visionary, Alicia Porter is owner and operator of The Burning Sands leads the pac in entrepreneurship by starting business more than 30 years ago while a student at Payne College!  She was most recently recognized by Women’s Empowerment as one of the Most Outstanding Women in Business.  Atlanta’s Burning Sands boast as the premiere establishment for pan-hellenic attire nationally! 

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This segment focuses on Affordable Housing featuring two leaders in fair housing and home building.  Our guest, though their expertise and experience present gripping testimony on the impact poverty and politics have on housing of the underserved in our country.  It is hosted by The Sister’s Perspective Founder and Executive Producer Lairalaine White and Co-host Special Correspondent Paula Ann Granston.  Leading our special guest is Pastor AJ Johnson is a faith-influenced voice for urban resurgence and revival and a pace-setting champion for justice and community-wide uplift. As a trailblazer, Johnson leads The Urban Hope Refuge Church, an influential church where passionate worship and community activism meet in Hartford, Connecticut. He spearheads Small Business Night Out, a network of minority-owned businesses and entrepreneurs; Calling all Brothers, a widely hailed male mentor-ship and leadership organization and Brothers Johnson 1929 Hat Company, a clothing brand reflecting strength, loyalty, and distinction.  Kamili Williams is CEO and President of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Plainfield & Middlesex County in Plainfield, New Jersey since 2017.  Her emphasis is on promoting housing and home ownership in underserved communities in keeping with Habitat’s mission.

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This segment of Perspectives On is a re-broadcast of our segment on human trafficking that occurred just after the initial broadcast of the Surviving R. Kelly documentary.  It was our very first podcast featuring two pioneers in the field of human trafficking advocacy, both are Atlanta’s Dr. Sharnell Myles licensed Clinical Psychologist and founder of The Social Justice Cafe for Girls and Dorsey Jones human trafficking survivor and author of Stretched Beyond Measure - When the Angels Were Crying.

The entire segment yielded some awesome dialogue with the most intriguing and momentous conversation centering around the Surviving R. Kelly documentary!  

P.S.  Please forgive the audio issues....we were learning!

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