Episode 37 Brittney Dunn - ”Shreveport-Bossier: My City, My Community, My Home”

Brittney Dunn, Owner of Brittney Dunn, CPA LLC and Chairwoman of the Shreveport African American Chamber of Commerce, sits down with Jeffrey Goodman, Director of Marketing and Development for the YMCA of Northwest Louisiana, to answer the following questions:

 

0:58 1. Brittney, you run your own accounting business, B&D Tax & Accounting Services LLC, and are greatly involved in our community. Let me name some of the high points.

 

You serve on the following boards: Caddo Council on Aging, Volunteers of America and United Way of Northwest Louisiana. You were recently appointed to the Democratic Parish Executive Committee for District 10 and you currently serve as the Chairwoman of the Shreveport African American Chamber of Commerce.

 

You once said, “Try not to become a person of success, rather a person of value.”

 

Why do care so much about being of value to our community?

 

8:52 2. In a historic partnership, the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau together with the City of Shreveport, the City of Bossier City, the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce, the Bossier Chamber of Commerce, the Shreveport-Bossier African American Chamber of Commerce, and other local community organizations are working together to develop a Destination Master Plan and Community Brand.

 

While the Convention and Tourist Bureau has led the project and is funding the initiative, a steering committee with representatives from around the area has been organized to offer guidance and assistance. You are steering committee co-chair along with Lisa Johnson, President and CEO of the Bossier Chamber of Commerce.

 

Talk to me about the importance of this project and where we are so far in the process.

 

13:53 3. 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?

 

18:41 4. 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 all do you go and where do you take him or her to give a sense of your Shreveport-Bossier?

 

23:10 5. As you look around our community, what concerns you the most?

 

33:01 6. What makes you hopeful about the future of our community?