MaryCatherine Wright

Senior Recruiter

The College Board

Dec 2025 - Current (10 months)

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Talent Acquisition & Management Consultant

Bold Horizons LLC

Aug 2024 - Current (2 years 2 months)

I bring a unique blend of in-house and consulting expertise, having designed and led recruitment strategies across roles ranging from early-career to senior leadership. I've supported over 75+ searches and am known for:
- Building equitable hiring processes that scale across teams and functions
- Coaching hiring managers to make confident, inclusive, and data-informed hiring decisions
- Strengthening candidate experiences to attract diverse talent
- Using data and systems to streamline hiring

I partner with organizations as an embedded talent leader — helping them not only fill critical roles, but also build sustainable hiring practices that strengthen teams for the long term.

Prior clients inclu

Talent Acquistion Consultant

Braven

Jun 2024 - Current (2 years 4 months)

Responsibilities:
• Manage hiring process for hiring managers for all roles coordinator through leadership
• Create and execute on ambitious timelines that balance candidate experience and organizational needs
• Design interview and hiring materials to discern candidate fit

Searches Completed:
- Director, External Affairs - NYC
- Director, Operations & Systems - External Affairs
- Director, Research
- Director, Volunteer Recruitment
- Director, Regional Success Enablement
- Director, Career Communities (STEM)
- Associate Director, Career Communities (Business, Arts & Media)
- Associate Director, Project Management
- Associate Director, Workforce Strategy (BravenX) <

Human Resources Consultant

One Million Degrees

Nov 2025 - May 2026 (7 months)

Talent Acquisition Consultant

StriveTogether

Jul 2024 - Apr 2026 (1 year 10 months)

I supported StriveTogether's talent acquisition work as a contracted fractional HR team member through Hatch Gemini where I was their lead recruiter for 1.5 years and closed 28 searches.

I supported the recruitment, hiring and onboarding of their re-established People Experience team alongside leadership. During the People team transitions and vacancies, I re-designed and streamlined their internal and external hiring processes, provided strategic advice on organizational design and talent strategy and managed a Talent Acquisition Associate to support resume reviews and scheduling support.

Accomplishments:
- Completed an equity, efficiency and process audit of talent acquisition systems and structures.
- R

Talent Acquisition Consultant

Obama Foundation

May 2024 - Dec 2025 (1 year 8 months)

Responsibilities:
- Support hiring managers with all logistics and scheduling of the interview process, including candidate communication, initial phone screens, hiring guide creation and feedback, and general recommendations and expertise
- Created recruitment strategy and led sourcing processes for hard to fill roles
- Focused on delivering efficient, effective and high-quality search support and an equitable and positive hiring process for candidates

Accomplishments:
- Created recruiter standard operating procedures and manual for new hires
- Streamlined and creating hiring manager resources and materials
- Mentored, supported and created L&D for Director of Talent, recruitment team and new h

Vice President of Talent

VENTURE FOR AMERICA

May 2021 - Mar 2024 (2 years 11 months)

Venture For America is a nonprofit with a vision to create an accessible and inclusive future of entrepreneurship in America. VFA runs a two-year Fellowship that connects passionate recent college graduates to growing startups in 13 American cities. In my role, I oversaw our talent team and the acquisition for fellows including the recruitment, selection and onboarding for our Fellowship class of 120-200 Fellows annually as well as staff internal hiring functions in collaboration with our Director of Talent.

- Recruited, selected and onboarded 450+ current and incoming Fellows, achieving a candidate satisfaction score of 95%
- Oversaw management of the cross-departmental Selection team which includes 40+ VFA staff, 65+ volu

Managing Director, Recruitment

Teach For America

Jul 2016 - May 2021 (4 years 11 months)

Teach For America works to enlist our nation's top leaders in the movement to end educational inequity. Through our collective national efforts, we strive to disrupt inequity through empowering low income communities with greater educational opportunities.

In my specific role, I lead a team of recruiters to bring in a broad and diverse network of leaders in the movement to eliminate educational inequity.

Over the course of my time in the role, I've led our recruitment efforts at over fifty schools in the Midwest, Northeast and parts of the south. Cumulatively, my team has recruited over 800 qualified candidates for Teach For America.

Talent Recruiter

Noble Network of Charter Schools

Jul 2014 - Jul 2016 (2 years 1 month)

Noble Network runs the highest performing open enrollment, public schools in Chicago and serves over 10,000 students. We are committed to providing students with a high-quality education that prepares students for success in college and beyond. Each year we send over 90% of our seniors to college, over 80% of which are the first in their family to do so.

In my role on the Talent Team, I focused on finding and connecting with our nation's highest-performing and determined educators about employment opportunities at Noble. By identifying education's top talent, Noble ensures that 10,000+ Chicago students are receiving a high-quality, college-preparatory education.

Highlights:
- Joined a growing talent team and imp

Recruitment Manager

Teach For America

Jun 2012 - Jun 2014 (2 years 1 month)

I developed, managed and executed our team's recruitment strategy at universities in Indiana and Ohio with the goal of increasing overall awareness about educational inequality, building conviction about the ability to change societal outcomes through education and bringing undergraduate leaders to join our work at Teach For America. Through our efforts, my team produced the largest state-school growth in the country (+33% over previous year) and the highest numeric total in the history of the portfolio.

I produced in the top 10 nationally in 2013 in all measurable actions out of a 200+ person team for both inputs and results, including recruiting the 9th most corps members, 5th most applications, and completing the 2nd most mee

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Elementary Teacher

Fall Creek Academy

Aug 2010 - May 2012 (1 year 10 months)

During my time at Fall Creek Academy, I taught 3rd grade in 2010-2011 and a split grade level classroom of kindergarten and 1st graders in 2012-2012 with the goal of remediating below-grade level first graders to be academically ready and strong readers by 2nd grade. I was responsible for developing the educational scope and sequence, curriculum and daily lessons that would ensure students were academically prepared for the next grade level. I led students to 1.5 years reading growth in 2010-2011 and 2.1 years reading growth in 2011-2012 with 80% mastery of Indiana state standards.

2010 Corps Member

Teach For America

Jun 2010 - May 2012 (2 years)

As a corps member, I was selected from over 46,000 applicants nationally to join a national teacher corps of recent college graduates who commit to teach for two years in under-resourced public schools. As a corps member, I was able to serve in multiple leadership roles including being a member of the Transition Team, Corps Member Advisory Board and leading my peers in professional development strategies from Teach Like A Champion. My placement was as an elementary teacher in Indianapolis at Fall Creek Academy.

Campus Campaign Coordinator

Teach For America

Aug 2009 - May 2010 (10 months)

I served as an undergraduate representative for Teach For America at the University of Kentucky. In the role, I was responsible for raising awareness about educational equity on campus and mobilizing my peers to apply and join Teach For America after graduation.

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Communications Intern

Office of the Governor Steve Beshear

May 2009 - Aug 2009 (4 months)

I was responsible for drafting communication for constituent letters, gubernatorial proclamations and cataloging news for the governor's personal records. I also assisted the Task Force on Early Childhood Education with their meeting notes and communication.

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Intern

Clark County Prosecutors Office

May 2008 - Aug 2008 (4 months)

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