Tomas Passeggi

Tomas Passeggi

Tomas Passeggi is the Manager of Caloundra Community Centre Inc. More than a manager, Tomas sees himself as a grassroots community development worker, passionate about community connections and the power of small locality based organisations to harness people’s engagement in civic society and participatory democracy.
Born and raised in South America, Tomas understands the complexities of working with disenfranchised communities and people affected by poverty, disadvantage, oppression of indigenous people and those with low or no political agency. Tomas graduated with a bachelor of Social Sciences (Community Work ) from the University of the Sunshine Coast in 2007.

He has worked across the community sector from ageing to youth homelessness and for the past 15 year has been the Community Development Coordinator at the Caloundra Community Centre and Coordinator of Baringa Community Centre for the past 2 years. Tomas is an Honorary Senior Fellow of the University of the Sunshine Coast and besides his committee work with Neighbourhood Centres Queensland he also sits as a Queensland representative on the board of ANHCA (Australian Neighbourhood Houses and Centres Associations), committee member of The Coalition of Community Boards and on the Community Development Institute Initiative.