Abbey Cahill

Senior Communications Manager

abbey@bostonfoodforest.org

Abbey manages communications BFFC, telling the story of food forests in Boston and beyond. 

She has long been fascinated by how the physical landscape informs collective identity, memory, and well-being. In college, studying English and Environmental Studies in the Connecticut River Valley, she was influenced by Abenaki folklore, terrestrial ecology, deep-time geology, and the magic of Mycorrhizal networks. After college, she worked on corporate climate solutions in San Francisco. She cut her teeth in corporate communications at Salesforce — working on a major campaign centering the UN Sustainable Development goals — before serving as Chief of Staff at the climate consulting firm 3Degrees where she helped incorporate environmental justice principles into existing workflows.

After a sobering dose of climate doom (prompted by fire season in Northern California), Abbey encountered Joanna Macy’s healing vision for the Great Turning and moved to Boston. Inspired to focus on hyper-local climate solutions, she secured a grant to launch the Quinobequin Review (a journal publishing community-sourced essays, reporting, art, recipes, maps, interviews, and more from throughout the Charles River Watershed) and began hosting “Neighborhood Salons” that brought neighbors together to reflect on their connection to this landscape and each other. She also enrolled in a Master’s in Journalism program at Boston University, tailoring the degree in climate solutions reporting.

Abbey literally stumbled across BFFC after walking into Leland Street Community Garden, meeting several stewards, and making it the subject of a video project she was producing for graduate school.  She fell in love with BFFC’s mission and joined the team!