Katina Parker

Katina Parker is an American filmmaker and photographer from Durham, North Carolina. She founded the mutual aid group Feed Durham during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Early life and education Parker grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. Her family included cooks and civil rights leaders, she had a Southern Baptist upbringing, and started taking pictures when she was ten. She graduated in speech communication and fine arts in film production. She filmed and co-produced Ferguson: A Report from Occupied Territory (2015), about the reactions to the 2014 Killing of Michael Brown.

Parker has been a media strategist for GLAAD, and worked as a teacher and consultant at Duke University. The group cooked food, offered it to people who could pick it up themselves and donated the rest to local charities. Indy Week called the effort "a model for direct crisis activism".

By December 2020 they had prepared 10,000 meals, and by March 2021 they had held seven cookouts, as well as raised over 100,000 dollars via GoFundMe.

Feed Durham inspired similar programs in other cities. Parker and others documented the group's activities, and their work was presented in a 2023 art exhibit by the Durham Arts Council, "Lovingly Prepared by: A Multimedia Experience by Feed Durham."

Personal life As of 2020, she lives in Durham, North Carolina and has a daughter.