Episode 15 Billy Anderson - ”Shreveport-Bossier: My City, My Community, My Home”

Billy Anderson, Community Activist, sits down with Jeffrey Goodman, Director of Marketing and Development with the YMCA of Northwest Louisiana, to answer the following questions:

 

1:08 1. Billy, you are greatly involved in our community. I probably won’t hit everything but let me list some of the organizations with whom you work. You are the Executive Director of the Shreveport-Bossier African American Chamber of Commerce, Board Member of the Highland Area Partnership, Red River Revel, SocialGoats Inc and a member of the New Leaders Council. And this past week you were the Parade Chairman of the area’s inaugural Juneteenth Parade.

 

Let’s start by providing some background. You are a Shreveport-Bossier native. Where in the area did you grow up? Where did you go to school?

 

3:20 2. Why do you care so much about this community?

 

4:06 3. Let’s talk about the African American Chamber of Commerce. I read that the organization’s vision is to lead the charge for advocacy, entrepreneurship and economic empowerment. Talk to me about this vision and some of the ways that the African American Chamber of Commerce impacts our community.

 

6:42 4. You obviously believe in a better Shreveport-Bossier. If someone came to you and said, “Billy I am giving you all the money and all the power to make this city into the city you dream about and the city you want us to become.” What does that city look and feel like?

 

7:52 5. It is inspiring to see someone like you working so hard to give back to our community. How do we create more people like you that believe in Shreveport-Bossier?

 

8:38 6. A friend of yours is coming to visit. It will be his or her first time in Shreveport-Bossier and he or she is only in town for one full day. Where you go and where do you take him or her to give a sense of your Shreveport-Bossier?