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Caylin Moore

Election Year: 2017

Election Constituency: United States of America

Scholar Status: Scholar Alum

Rhodes Identifier: California & Jesus 2017

Caylin Moore

Biography

Caylin L. Moore is a senior at Texas Christian University majoring in economics. He overcame poverty, and an abusive father incarcerated on a life sentence for murder to become a campus leader and Division One football player at Marist and then TCU. Caylin was selected to the Fulbright Summer Institute to study the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the University of Bristol and was chosen to attend the Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute at Princeton University. He is the founder and president of "S.P.A.R.K.," a youth outreach organization of student-athletes who encourage opportunity youth to attend college, as well as a volunteer for the Children's Defense Fund.