About Us

In the Summer of 2008 a Cal Poly communications student, Kara Callaway (pictured above), attended a Break Away conference and took a trip to New Orleans for relief work. The experience was life changing, and she approached the Cal Poly Community CENTER about starting an Alternative Breaks program on campus for her senior project.

Student Life & Leadership approved the program, and it was adopted into the SCS (Student Community Services) portfolio as one of many programs that encourages students at Poly to engage in community service. As an AmeriCorps member stationed at The Cal Poly Community CENTER, I (Kelsey Currier-pictured below left) have taken this project and ran with it, and it has been incredibly rewarding. Amber Tierney (pictured below right) has been my staff back-up, and to her I want to say a big THANK YOU!

We hope to institutionalize this program, with service trips during each academic break, open to all students on campus of every college, year and major.

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