My name is Joanna Jackson, and I am from Albany, Georgia. I am a Community Organizer and a proud Community Health Worker with lived experience of Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes has deeply impacted my life and my family. I’ve seen it pass from generation to generation starting with my mother, who developed gestational diabetes while pregnant with my baby sister. When my sister was born, she had diabetes as well. My father had it, my oldest sister developed it, and eventually, so did I after having my youngest daughter. Growing up in the South, soul food was a part of our culture and family...