Episode 25 Madison Poche - ”Shreveport-Bossier: My City, My Community, My Home”

Madison Poche, Executive Director of the Highland Center, sits down with Jeffrey Goodman, Director of Marketing and Development for the YMCA of Northwest Louisiana, to answer the following questions:

0:50 1. Madison, you’ve been a force in the community – writer for Heliopolis, former Director of Admin at SRAC, former Project Director of the GDIT/LED program at BPCC, involved in the Bikeway Pilot Program, a member of the Royal Court of Highland, Highland Restoration Association President. And that’s just scratching the surface of all of the things you’ve been involved in.

 

I believe you grew up in New Orleans, received your undergraduate degree from Emory and a Masters in Nonprofit Administration from LSUS.

 

When and how did you come to live in Shreveport?

 

6:42 2. You are now the Executive Director of the Highland Center - a community center in the heart of Shreveport's historic, diverse, and artistic Highland neighborhood. There are a number of different ways in which the Highland Center serves the community. When I look on your website, it breaks your programs and services into three major headings.

 

Talk to me first if you could about Highland Center Ministries.

 

9:55 3. The Highland Center also offers Financial Support Services. What are some of the things that these Support Services entail?

 

12:20 4. Lastly, on the Highland Center’s website, it mentions a number of different ways in which you are a Community Resource Center. Talk to me about this if you could.

 

20:57 5. You have your ear to the ground and have been greatly involved since being in this community, what are some of the things that are holding us back?

 

29:55 6. Lastly, what makes you hopeful that we are headed in the right direction?