Megan Braden-Perry is a native New Orleanian, Dillard University alum, and mother of a three-year-old boy named Franklin. She’s highly motivated by food and drink and, according to her friend Jenny Martin, “will talk to the devil for a sandwich.” Aside from eating and drinking, she enjoys attending cultural and political events, often with her son, as to “train up a child” in hopes he’ll do the right thing and attend an HBCU. She’s been published in Essence, NY Daily News, Jezebel, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, Gambit, and Where Magazine. She is the also the author of the children’s book, Allen the Alligator Counts Through New Orleans.