Alternative Break

Alternative break programs work with national and international communities by training and immersing students in a purposeful service-learning experience designed to connect students and community members while enhancing personal growth, cultural enrichment, heightening social awareness and promoting social change and life-long learning.

Alternative break experiences are most frequently conducted during winter break, spring break, and over the summer. The trips provide opportunities for participants to live, share and volunteer with other students while working toward positive change and establishing lasting relationships with the communities they serve. At Carnegie Mellon several organizations host alternative break trips.  Learn more about this year's opportunities at their individual websites or by contacting the organization's leadership.

Alternative Break

• Primary Contact: Courtney Sutter
• Primary Email: altbreak@andrew.cmu.edu
• Website: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/altbreak/index2.htm

Global Medical Brigades

• Primary Contact: Karalyn Baca
• Primary Email: kbaca@andrew.cmu.edu
• Website: http://www.medicalbrigades.com

Habitat for Humanity

• Primary Contact: Bizhou Wang
• Primary Email: bizhouw@andrew.cmu.edu
• Website: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/org/habitat

Interfaith Fellowship Council missions trip

• Primary Contacts: Regina Chan
• Primary Emails: reginac@andrew.cmu.edu

Students in Free Enterprise

• Primary Contact: Scarlett Su
• Primary Email: amaro@cmu.edu
• Website: www.cmusife.org