In this episode of QNA: Questions Need Answers, Munch sits down with Marshall L. Davis, longtime arts administrator, community leader, and congressional candidate, for a conversation about what it takes to intentionally invest in people and communities.

Marshall reflects on his decades of work with the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center and the philosophy behind helping transform it into an institution focused on serious arts education, cultural development, discipline, exposure, and opportunity.

We discuss why successful programs need strategy, structure, systems, expectations, and measurable outcomes—and why the real measure of a program isn't simply that it exists, but what happens to the people who experience it.

The conversation expands into education, vocational training, marketable skills, housing, economic opportunity, and Marshall's belief that young people should leave our educational systems better prepared to build independent and productive lives.

For Munch, this conversation is also personal because of his own connection to the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center and firsthand experience with the institution Marshall helped build.

At the center of it all is a simple question:

How do you build people, not just programs?

QNA doesn't tell you who to vote for. We ask the questions so you can hear directly from the people seeking to serve our communities and make an informed decision for yourself.