Africa Trip Winner Profile: Tomas Moreno
Tomas Moreno, a rising junior at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, is a Campus Challenge superstar. Besides serving as Campus Outreach Ambassador (COA) for the Carolinas, Tomas successfully led his team to the Power 100, the Top 10, and finally to become the 2008-9 OCC champions.
At Wofford, Tomas is studying Sociology and Economics with a concentration in African and African American Affairs, and an additional minor in Government. He has traveled to Mexico with Rotary International several times, and worked with an orphanage in Romania in 2008. He’s active with ONE partner organization OXFAM, as well as a bunch of other campus organizations. Tomas has plans to join the Peace Corps upon his graduation, but more immediately, he will be an organizer for Bread for the World in San Francisco this summer.
Tomas joined ONE in 2006 when a friend, who had first heard about ONE in her house of faith, “banded” him with a white ONE wristband. As COA for the Carolinas, he has recruited new campus leaders in those states and successfully mentored them to become as engaged as he is.
This past school year, his tireless work mobilizing his campus was rewarded when Wofford finished in first place in OCC, becoming the 2008-9 Campus Challenge champs despite being a campus of less than 2,000 undergraduates.
Check out Tomas’ project for the Africa trip here.
Congrats to Tomas and the other Africa trip winners!
-Emily Stivers
May 16th, 2009 at 1:35 am
Tomas,
Words hardly seem enough to express how proud I am of you. I remember when you were just 3 years old, you wanted to “Save the Earth”. You had no doubts that it was possible. Now as a young adult, you are truly taking the steps to do just this!
You are so amazing. I love you so much and consider it such a privileged to call you my nephew.
Love,
Auntie Debo