Damien Ford, Project Manager and Associate Architect for Mike McSwain Architect, sits down with Jeffrey Goodman, Director of Marketing and Development for the YMCA of Northwest Louisiana, to answer the following questions:

0:36 1. Damien, you are a Project Manager and Associate Architect for Mike McSwain Architect. Let’s start here today. Tell me some about where and how you grew up?

13:38 2. What do you attribute your success to compared with some of your peers that you grew up with?

18:28 3. How did you end up in architecture?

21:24 4. What is it like being a young professional in Shreveport-Bossier?

32:20 5. What is it like being a young black professional in Shreveport-Bossier?

49:38 6. As you look out at our community, what are some of the things that concern you the most?

53:10 7. What are some of the things that give you hope that our community is heading in a positive direction?