Toasting Cary Wright by https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw Celebrations and appreciations for Cary Wright and his incredible leadership at Teach For America DFW. en-us 2020-05-05 16:06:33 UTC 2025-11-19 08:40:35 UTC hello@padlet.com Thank you for your collaboration, creativity, and support CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555329338 Cheers to Cary for his foresight to support Teach For America across the entire state of Texas.  In particular, he is aware of different capacities for support throughout the state as well as different funders who want to support our impact more broadly.  He has been focused on expanding the broader pie of support for all of us.  Thank you for your collaboration, creativity, and support as TFA-Texas has been greatly strengthened during your time as executive director of TFA-DFW.
- Jonathan Stevens]]> 2020-05-06 16:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555329338 "I'm so excited to see where your future goes and your story unfold" CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555392170 2020-05-06 17:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555392170 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555399216 Cary — 

Thanks for leading TFA to the next level!  You have done an incredible job, and we are so appreciative of your leadership and all that you have done to support the amazing TFA corp and alums.  Looking forward to continue working together in your next TFA chapter.

Best, 
Libby McCabe 
]]> 2020-05-06 17:10:58 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555399216 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555400787 Cary – your leadership of this important organization has been a real treat to support, observe and learn from.  I have thoroughly enjoyed every moment I get with you and your team as you navigate all the risks and opportunities in this critical endeavor.  It actually reminds me quite a bit of my early days with other leaders of Teach For America – lots of passion, thoughtfulness, flexibility, leadership, focus, inquisitiveness, and inspiration.  You have reminded me why I loved my work with TFA in 1993-1995.  I will miss working with you here in Dallas-Fort Worth, but I am happy to see you move on to continue your great work with Teach For America.  Good luck!  And, please do not hesitate to reach out if you ever want to talk about anything.  We are forever connected now.  Best – Kenji]]> 2020-05-06 17:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555400787 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555401780 Few leaders at TFA have encouraged me that being an alumnus not in education was still deeply important to the mission. You encouraged me to be a champion for TFA even as I entered the corporate world. Thank you for your leadership to so many.
Ryan Buchanan (TFA '11)]]> 2020-05-06 17:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555401780 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555415894 2020-05-06 17:17:00 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555415894 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555427393 👍🏻🎉🥂 good luck Cary
- Elizabeth Small]]> 2020-05-06 17:21:15 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555427393 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555429283 So grateful to Cary for how he has lead- with such empathy, compassion, vision and smarts. He will be very missed!
- Michelle Kinder]]> 2020-05-06 17:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555429283 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555574731 Cary, TFA DFW is richer for your many and varied contributions through the years.  I’ve loved having a front row seat to your growth and development as a leader and the full display of your considerable gifts and talents for leadership.  I think TFA grew  in remarkable ways because of you and I  suspect you did too.  Specifically your wisdom, insight  and curious mind married to an open heart will long be missed.   I wish you many more adventures as you help guide forward  this remarkable organization.  Please, let’s do stay touch!
 
“Stay strong, stay new, stay you.”     

- Nance Wonders
]]> 2020-05-06 18:18:18 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555574731 Cary- mike313 https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555796738 Your Leadership has been incredible. Your commitment, passion, and dedication to Education and TFA was an example to us all. I enjoyed working with you and I am looking forward to your next chapter with TFA---

I hope to see you soon. Be Safe!

Mike Terry]]> 2020-05-06 19:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/555796738 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556183948 Thank you so much for your boundless energy, your dedication, your tireless efforts, your wisdom and your infectiously positive attitude.]]> 2020-05-07 00:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556183948 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556229773 2020-05-07 01:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556229773 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556229942 2020-05-07 01:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556229942 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556230262 2020-05-07 01:00:43 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556230262 Cary-- https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556273547 You are exceptional--insightful, strategic, kind but tough, dry, wry, self-deprecating, and utterly devoted to big ideas that make big change. I always learn something significant in the ways you approach unsolvable problems--and move them forward.  
I hope we'll stay in touch in your new role.  
All good wishes!

Jeanne Whitman]]> 2020-05-07 01:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556273547 Cary harold33 https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556289669 You did an outstanding job for TFA DFW 
We wish you the best in the future and look forward to hearing about the great things you will accomplish in life 

Your are an impressive young leader
Best to you 

Bunny Harold and Brooke Ginsburg

]]> 2020-05-07 02:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556289669 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556340474 Thank you more so for all that you poured into TFA. You really gave this team your all for nearly a decade, and your fingerprints are all over TFA DFW and you have shaped this region into one of the very best in the TFA network. I am proud to have worked alongside you for nearly six years and am so proud of all that you accomplished as our fearless, humble, joyful leader. 

With deep love and admiration for you,
Ashley
]]> 2020-05-07 02:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556340474 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556344265 2020-05-07 03:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556344265 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556345672 2020-05-07 03:05:25 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556345672 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556350386 2020-05-07 03:11:34 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556350386 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556353558 2020-05-07 03:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556353558 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556365106 2020-05-07 03:30:35 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556365106 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556369905 2020-05-07 03:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556369905 Congratulations! CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556382004 2020-05-07 03:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556382004 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556388865 We're going to miss you. It won't be the same without you. But we're gonna fight like hell to CARY-on!]]> 2020-05-07 04:02:17 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/556388865 Thank You CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557279092 I have learned so much from working with you. You always think of others before yourself. It is your humility that is a defining characteristic. You are never concerned with WHO is right, but rather always focus on WHAT is right and how to empower, encourage and celebrate others. Your humility has prepared you for the many changes and challenges that life inevitably throws at all of us and it is also your humility that has shined these last years as you led this Board and the entire TFA organization as a unified and formidable team celebrating success and overcoming hurdles, guiding everyone through struggles and triumphs. ]]> 2020-05-07 12:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557279092 Hey Cary - Thank You! https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557298266 Teach For America - Dallas-Fort Worth and all of us are to grateful to you for all you've done, accomplished, and for the groundwork you've laid for the future.  You are an amazing leader, human-being, and friend.  I am smiling a mile wide as I write this remembering our time working together.....and feeling incredibly proud of you for your leadership as Executive Director.  Cheers!!

Nancy Dennis]]> 2020-05-07 12:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557298266 Thank You Cary! https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557309642 We highly value our partnership with TFA and your leadership has nurtured the trust we have developed over the years.  Best of luck in your future endeavors - but don't forget us!
Stephanie Knight]]> 2020-05-07 12:55:27 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557309642 Cary-- https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557385593 It's been such a real pleasure to be a thought partner with you in addressing the educational challenges here in Dallas Ft. Worth.  You have been invaluable to the progress we've continued to make and I look forward to watching your career as you prove to be a difference maker for kids.    All the best friend.

Humbly,

Todd Williams]]> 2020-05-07 13:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557385593 Cary - https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557392443 I view our time working together through the years as a real opportunity to learn from you in your unique mix of clear eyed realism and inspirational optimism.  Thank you for the time and energy you've poured into our people, our team and our network in North Texas and across our great state.  I believe that the true test of leadership is how and organization looks and feels six months after a transition; I am convinced that we will look back at your time as ED of TFA-DFW as foundational in establishing the successful path to 2030 and beyond.  

-Robert Carreon]]> 2020-05-07 13:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557392443 Thank You Cary! https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557394465 Cary, thank you for all of your work on behalf of TFA DFW! As a TFA alum, a native Dallasite, and a community member, I appreciate your leadership! You have worked so strongly and seamlessly with corps members, alums, donors, and other partners. My family and I wish you all the best and look forward to staying in touch!!  Cheers, Brooke Ginsburg ]]> 2020-05-07 13:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557394465 https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557415015 2020-05-07 13:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557415015 Cary, https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557456574 There are special people walking the face of this earth, and you are certainly one of them.  You're a unique individual wired in a way which has brought much laughter, joy, enlightenment, humility, ferocity and impact to the work we do with each other and for kids.  I feel so blessed to know you, to call you friend and colleague and to continue seeing you doing incredible things on this earth.  #TexasForever

Much love and admiration,
Ana Gonzalez]]> 2020-05-07 13:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557456574 #texasforever tiffanycneedham https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557885880 Cary, it has been such an honor to work alongside you over the last 4 years.  Our impromptu phone calls have been such a blessing to me and I continue to be in awe of your strong leadership, ability to see all angles of a situation, and balance of optimism and doomsday. :)  Cheers to a new beginning for you!
Tiffany Cuellar Needham

]]> 2020-05-07 16:10:18 UTC https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/557885880 CaryWright https://padlet.com/carywright/tfadfw/wish/585308495 Cary,
Toby and I congratulate you on your new journey! Thank you for all your amazing work in Dallas – your thoughtful and inspiring leadership has made TFA in North Texas a program to be admired. We are grateful for your time and dedication to such an important movement. 
Warmly,
Dawn and Toby Grove
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