Dr. Walli Carranza biography: 13 things about Rabbi for Chesed in Auch, France

Dr. Walli D. Carranza is a former resident of Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States and Lake Jackson, Texas, USA. As a professional mediator and marriage and family life coach, she specializes in serving couples and individuals who are survivors of domestic abuse or domestic violence through infidelity.

For 15 years, Carranza worked as a nurse and a midwife, delivered around 500 babies and managed one of the largest birth centers in Texas. She is an alumna of the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, United States, the University of Texas at Houston in Houston and The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas.

Currently, Carranza is the lead rabbi for the Chesed Communaute Juive de L’Occitanie, a Jewish community in Auch, France. She is also the chief development officer for Summit Coaching Solutions, Inc. with offices in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA and in Durban, France.

Carranza is fluent in English and French. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. From 1977 to 1980, she attended the University of Houston where she earned her bachelor’s degree in health education.
2. From May 1980 to May 1982, she attended the University of Texas at Houston where she earned her master’s degree in nursing.
3. In 1981, she and Enrique “Henry” Cardenas Carranza II got married. They have five children together namely Luke Carranza, Gena Carranza, Enrique “Quito” Carranza III, Gabrielle Carranza and Cella Carranza. Henry was preceded in death by Luke.
4. From August 1988 to December 2002, she attended the University of Texas at Austin where she earned her PhD in nursing education.
5. On November 7, 1995, her husband Henry died at their residence in Lake Jackson. He was 39.
6. From January 2000 to December 2002, she was the director of operations of SUMMIT Medical Legal Solutions in Dallas, Texas. From 2005 to 2011, she was the chief operating officer of its division Starting Point. In January 2019, she became the chief development officer.
7. From 2005 to 2008, she was a member of the Denver Coach Federation in Denver, Colorado. On May 23, 2005, her father-in-law Enrique “Henry” Gonzalez Carranza died in Channelview, Texas at the age of 77.
8. From January 2010 to January 2019, she was a professor of health coaching and healthcare ethics at Health Coach Alliance in Colorado Springs.
9. In November 2016, her grandson Samuel Moreno Carranza was born. He is Quito and Genesse Ivonne Moreno‘s son.
10. From January 2017 to March 2020, she was a rabbi at ALEPH Jewish Community of the Springs in Colorado Springs.
11. In 2018, she from her home after surviving two years and six months of escalating violence that followed the disclosure of her partner’s 18 years of constant, hidden infidelity, according to her.
12. In June 2020, she filed criminal charges for sexual assault against her former partner. On March 12, 2020, her mother-in-law Enedina Cardenas Carranza died at the age of 93. In April 2020, she became the senior rabbi of the Chesed Communaute Juive de L’Occitanie.
13. On January 8, 2024, she turned 65. On February 11, 2024, her grandson Samuel was critically wounded when he and Genesse went to Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. After Genesse opened fire, she was fatally shot by off-duty police officers Adrian Herrera, then 38, and Christopher Moreno, then 28.