Santos Maldonado

Santos is a native New Yorker who has been living in Orlando, Florida since 2001.

In addition to his career activity at Second Harvest, he also enjoys writing and travel.

He’s contributed to two newspapers, The Orlando Sentinel and Caribbean Business Weekly. He occasionally blogs on his organization’s site, http://www.feedhopenow.org, focusing on social issues that deal with childhood hunger in Central Florida. Santos is a firm believer in life-long learning and understands the power of the written, as well as the spoken word.

He has attended half dozen institutions of higher learning in search of knowledge for knowledge’s sake.  As a survivor of homelessness, Santos has embarked on a mission to demonstrate the power of resiliency, persistence, and determination. In May of 2015, he managed to graduate UCF; something he did to prove that one can indeed go from homeless to graduate.