CARLOS MORENO 

Youth Activist and

2007 Brower Youth Award Recipient

Moreno, originally from Cape Verde, moved to Dorchester when he was six years old and graduated from West Roxbury High School.  In 2007,  he became the first of his nine siblings to attend college when he entered Regis College. 

For more than four years, Moreno has worked at the Roxbury Environmental Empowerment Program (REEP), part of the Alternative for the Community and the Environment (ACE), to  develop leadership in home neighborhoods through an environmental justice curriculum, leadership program, and youth-led organizing projects. 

In October, 2007, he received the Brower Youth Award from Earth Island Institute’s New Leader Initiative at its annual meeting in San Francisco for working to eliminate youth violence in Boston and to create summer youth employment through the Summer Jobs Campaign in that city. A video documenting Moreno’s work is available through the ACE website at http://www.ace-ej.org/reep.   “Carlos Moreno began making his mark on campus shortly after he arrived a year ago.   He chose to be part of the first undergraduate class at Regis open to men, he started a student group called AMUSED dedicated to writing, dance and poetry, and he is majoring in management, communications and sociology to develop the skills he needs to advance his humanitarian values.  Carlos has a deep understanding of the reality that nature, human beings, and social environment are all interconnected,” said Regis College President Mary Jane England, MD.