Featuring Dr. P. Qasimah Boston in a story about cultivation as action—about food as memory, land as connection, and the power of growing what our communities need to thrive. Rooted in ancestral wisdom and built little by little, it asks what becomes possible when we nurture people, place, and the next generation.
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Highlighting the Work and Legacy of
Dr. P. Qasimah Boston
Board of Directors President, Tallahassee Food Network
Qasimah is a Research/Scientific Advisory Board member for the Moving Forward Network and a member of the MFN Southeast Regional Network. She is President of the Board of Directors for the Tallahassee Food Network in Florida, whose vision is an educated world that has access to food that is healthy, green, fair, accessible and affordable. Dr. Boston is a human rights activist and a global public health practitioner.
Episode Credits
Executive Producer
Felicia T Perez
Moving Forward Network
Producers
Christopher Landry
Landry Communications
Director
Christopher Landry
Landry Communications
Director of Photography
Ben Landry
Editor
Jordan Baese
Additional Editing Christopher Landry
Story Producers
Felicia T Perez
Moving Forward Network
Associate Producers
Aminata Traore
Fernando Sánchez Carriel
Moving Forward Network
Art
Malaika Ross
Animation & Motion Graphics
Pedro Oswald
Archivist Valencia Whaley
Family Archivist
Aminata Traore
Featuring
Dr. Qasimah P. Boston
With thanks to her friends, family, and comrades in Boston, Savannah, Tallahassee, and beyond.
Archival Images
Boston Public Library
City of Boston
Library of Congress
Mississippi State University
WGBH
WBZ/CBS Boston
This project was made possible with support from:
Natural Resources Defense Council
Union of Concerned Scientists
Special Thanks
Windward Fund
Moving Forward Network Staff & Members
Tallahassee Food Network
Florida People’s Advocacy Center
A Production of
Landry Communications
Moving Forward Network