Enjoys Meals With Vegetables with Parker Gilkesson Davis

What does it mean for Black children to enjoy meals with vegetables in a world shaped by food insecurity and food apartheid? In this episode of Say That With Love, Dr.

Leah Austin is joined by Parker Gilkesson Davis, Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy, writer, and mother, for a conversation on food justice, nutrition, and child wellness. Together, they explore how policy, culture, and community intersect to shape Black children’s access to healthy food—and why nourishment is a matter of dignity, love, and liberation.

From lived experience to systems-level change, this episode reframes food as culture, care, and collective responsibility, calling listeners to imagine and build futures where Black children are nourished in body, mind, and spirit. Produced by Mike Brown in partnership with ABF Creative.

Poetry performed by Ariana Santiago.