Alternative Breaks offers service-learning trips for students to explore a social justice issue through hands-on service supplemented with education and reflection. Trips run during spring breaks and explore issues like immigration, environmental justice, public health, or poverty. Participants take a DeCal class before their trip to learn about the issue and the community partners they will be working with and to get to know each other.
Break Leader Retreat Weekend, Fall 2018
Supporters
Alternative Breaks (Alt Breaks) has benefited from the generous support of the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC), and the benevolent support of individual alumni donors.
Learn more about the program from the Berkeley Life!
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Spring 2022 Participant Application:
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Break Leader:
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Information Session:
- Tuesday, Oct. 12, 5-6pm, Zoom link here (Meeting ID 948 1745 5092 / Passcode 797622)
- Wednesday, Oct. 13, 5-6pm, Zoom link here (Meeting ID 936 1574 7506 / Passcode 511096)
- Thursday, Oct. 21, 5-6pm, Zoom link here (Meeting ID 919 6870 4471 / Passcode 741915)
Contact Information
Jesus Aguiniga, Finance Director.
finance.altbreaks@gmail.com
Justina Robinson, Communications Director
berkeleyaltbreaks@gmail.com
Rosa Enriquez, , Graduate Student Facilitator
rosaleeenriquez@berkeley.edu
Carina Marazzi, Special Projects & Development Director
berkeleyaltbreaks@gmail.com
Cassy Huang, Program Manager
cassy@berkeley.edu
2019-2020 Alternative Breaks Director Team
“I never imagined a space like the PSC. I participated in Alternative Breaks, which gave me experience in local community building. It taught me that community wisdom is perhaps the most important type of wisdom. There’s only so much we can learn from books. It’s given me an alternative way of learning.”
Alejandra Lopez, Class of 2015, Double Major in Sociology and Social Welfare
Read more about Alejandra’s experience with Alternative Breaks.