Working with communities across the US (2017– 2019), I was struck b how much inequity had grown, and what lessons might be useful for communities on similar tracks.

Poverty and its perverse by-products are becoming increasingly systemic. I witnessed how inadequate nutrition impacts intergenerational health, including people's ability to learn and thrive.

'Food apartheid' exists because people working multiple 'gigs' to raise a family don't have time, nor insurable vehicles to do a big shop at an affordable supermarket. Compounding the problem, the types of brightly packaged, highly processed and preserved 'franken-foods' available at corner stores are toxic to bodies and minds.