my
name is David Johnson both sides
of my family are from Harvey and um
my
before that you know came from Mississippi
and um sort of that same
Chicago Story coming to the
South Side uh it it's interesting
because I can remember my sophomore year and
I remember it specifically
because that was the year that a doctor um
prescribed uh medication
for my
ad and I remember
just feeling a shame that what
is wrong with me something must be wrong
me and I got to go to the nurses office and
take a pill and you know then
it would feel weird after I took it and
I was focusing but I had anxiety and
I remember I could just be sweating in the middle
of the class because I was so nervous
it wasn't until
I went on that trip that I realized that
nothing was wrong with me years he showed
me how to be a commercial creative
it changed my life changed my family's
life so I was able to make
my life out of being a creative and
an artist my name is
my mother for sure I didn't have a
lot of friends at school I got around people that
knew how to do the things that I was trying to do 1
day when you take pictures what
do you look for to make it possible
you
know when you were talking to somebody that you really
really know and you
can tell what they're thinking by their facial
expression and have you ever experienced this where you
you know someone so well that as soon
as they make a face you're like you're mad
or you're going to cry or whatever I
think part of it is really taking
the time to quiet my own
thoughts and my own self to be
present with and pay attention to what people's
faces are saying so the whole time I've been looking at
and I can see different messages just
popping off of your face like I said we have a
yearly conference that we do but
we also do mentorship programming
um we actually have a
mentorship
chicago.co is our
IGN that's our
website and you can definitely come
out to any of the programming that we're doing I
would say we we do stuff basically
every quarter we're we're doing things
so would love to have you first follow but then
also come out to some of the things that we're doing