TEDxTampaBay Robert Forgarty Dear World May 20, 2011

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Robert X. Fogarty is the director of evacuteer.org and founder of Dear World. In 2011, Fogarty started Dear World, a scalable version of Dear New Orleans, his for-profit photography venture for social good. Fogarty has photographed thousands, including Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Drew Brees, Academy Award Winner Susan Sarandon and NBA All Star Chris Paul. His photos are viewed 1.5 million times every month online, and 10 percent of Dear New Orleans' revenue goes to evacuteer.org.

Robert's emotionally powerful TEDxTampaBay presentation highlights the power of photography to give people a voice through which they can share message of hope and inspiration.

TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxTampaBay, where x=independently organized TED event. At our TEDxTampaBay event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.