Best Of: Be Nice and Win Big

As Out to Lunch Baton Rouge prepares to go back to hosting live
lunches, for inspiration we're taking a look at some of our shows
from BC (Before Covid). Here's an Out to Lunch Best of: Be Nice
and Win Big.


In 2011, Mary Patricia Wray was a young law student at Loyola
University Law School in New Orleans. Just three short years
later, she found herself serving as the communications director
for a longshot candidate in the Governor’s Race, a democratic
state Representative from Amite named John Bel Edwards. You know
what happened next: Edwards made the runoff and went on to beat
his Republican challenger David Vitter and become the only
Democratic governor in the dark red deep south.


Mary Patricia Wray, who goes by M.P., was instantly thrust into
the spotlight of state media and today M.P.’s political
consulting firm, Top Drawer Strategies, represents clients
on a variety of policy fronts, at all levels of
government.  


Jill Rigby Garner is a different kind of consultant. Jill’s focus
is not on electing people to office, but teaching them how to be
nicer. Jill is founder and Executive Director of Manners of
the Heart, a nonprofit organization that teaches kids about
manners and how to treat one another. The organization has its
roots in the volunteer work Jill did back in the 1990s. In 1999,
Jill wrote the Manners of the Heart curriculum and in 2002
founded the nonprofit with a vision to restore respect and
civility in society. Today, Jill leads her organization to equip
schools, encourage families and engage in local communities to
help children see beyond their circumstances to live up to their
full potential. 


Photos over lunch at Mansurs on the Boulevard at our
website.


 


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