She’s a social worker at the Asheville VA Medical Center by day, assisting with post-surgery counseling—and grief counseling when things don’t go well. The Columbia University grad also helps keep community dialysis centers up and running. By night, though, Tomas, whose family is Puerto Rican, is something of a glamour girl. She models in fashion shows, played the part of Mrs. Clara Booth Luce in Asheville Community Theatre’s Little Shop of Horrors last spring, and does a little singing for the New Jersey rapper Foul Mouth Jerk. “Whenever somebody needs me to fill in, I do,” she says, from hip-hop to bagpipes to jazz.