Episode 11 Carranza Pryor - ”Shreveport-Bossier: My City, My Community, My Home”

Carranza Pryor, Chief Counsel of LSU Health Shreveport, sits down with Jeffrey Goodman, Director of Marketing and Development with the YMCA of Northwest Louisiana, to answer the following questions:

 

0:50 1. Carranza, you graduated from Captain Shreve in 1987 and I graduated from Captain Shreve in 1992 and man did your legacy loom large. It was mind-boggling how many times one of my teachers bragged on the greatness that was Carranza Pryor.

 

I don’t want to embarrass you but just want to single out quickly a few of your accomplishments – Valedictorian of Captain Shreve, National Merit Scholar, Governor at Louisiana Boys State, Undergraduate Degree with Honors from Harvard, Law Degree from Yale and now Chief Counsel of LSU Health Shreveport.

 

You moved away for a long time, living in Cambridge, New Haven, Birmingham, Charlotte, Atlanta. What did you notice when you returned to live in Shreveport-Bossier? What felt the same? What felt different?

 

11:01 2. If Shreveport-Bossier had 5-10 Carranza Pryors every year who we exported for college but who then returned to live here, I can’t even imagine how much better this community would be for it. What’s the secret from your perspective? How do we get more of our exceptional kids, like you, to want to come back here to live?

 

20:21 3. I tend to like this next question. You have a friend from Harvard, who has never been to Shreveport-Bossier before, come to stay with you. He or she is only in town one full day. Where do you take him or her to give a sense of your Shreveport-Bossier?

 

31:26 4. This might be a slightly unfair question with no easy answers but how do we grow as a community into something that more closely resembles Birmingham, Charlotte or Atlanta?

 

46:04 5. What makes you prideful of Shreveport-Bossier?

 

48:29 6. What makes you hopeful about the future of Shreveport-Bossier?