Meet a Colleague: Brea Moore Brea Moore is an AmeriCorps VISTA working with the Office of Community-Based Learning.

W&L News Office
November 19, 2025

Q. How long have you worked at W&L?
I’ve only been here since the end of August. I just started my year of federal service with AmeriCorps.

Q. What do you like most about working at W&L?
It’s so exciting to be surrounded by people who love their jobs. I am constantly interacting with kind, intelligent and motivated individuals and I look forward to coming into the office.

Q. Where is your favorite location on the W&L campus?
Nothing beats the natatorium when the sun is shining through the windows, you can’t top an early morning swim.

Q. Where did you grow up?
I grew up in Utah and moved to Virginia when I was 16 years old. I have been proud to be from Buena Vista ever since.

Q. What advice do you have for students?
You will get out what you put in! You will find what you are looking for, so look for good; and you will receive what you are willing to give, so give of yourself freely and your life will be returned to you greater.

Q. If you could live anywhere, where would you build your dream home?
There’s a whole lot of world I have yet to see, and I think that someday I will come home to many places I have yet to even discover. As for now, my home in Buena Vista with my dog and my friends is already a dream come true, so I can’t help but enjoy it while it lasts.

Q. Who most inspires you?
My late Grandma was a stunning and hilarious woman. I hope to be even half of who she was and use what she has given me to bless others as she did.

Q. What book are you reading now?
I just finished “Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street,” and I’m looking for suggestions on what to start next!

Q. What music are you listening to these days?
Lots of Leon Bridges and Lake Street Drive.

Q. What is your favorite film (movie) of all time?
“Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure.”

Q. Which historical figure do you most identify with and why?
I cannot yet compare myself, but I look up to Pancho Barnes for her tenacity and courage of will, and Jane Addams for her strength of character and desire to serve. I hope to be someone who is one day described as a leader and also a servant.

Q. If you could have coffee with one person, who would it be and why?
C. S. Lewis would make an excellent coffee date — I’d love to pull out my annotations in the margins of his books and get his thoughts; or even just thank him for my introduction to literature. My dad had read me and my brothers “The Chronicles of Naria” as our bedtime story long before I could ever read for myself.

Q. What is your desert island food?
I could survive quite awhile with only a jar of peanut butter and a spoon.

Q. Tell us something most people don’t know about you.
I prefer sunrises to sunsets — they make you work a little harder to enjoy it.

Q. What is your secret talent?
It’s not uncommon to find me beatboxing underneath my breath when completing mundane tasks or chores.

Q. Anything else you’d like to share?
There is no quicker path to abundance than gratitude, if your knees hurt you should practice walking backwards daily, and “be excellent to each other.”