Alternative Breaks @ UCSD is more than just your average volunteer program. We volunteer and work extensively year round on our leadership skills that can transfer into other aspects of ours lives. These leaders are not average college student by any means! Each leader participates in 1 hour of leadership training every week for at least two quarters before their alternative breaks trip, including a mandatory two day leadership retreat.
If you would like to apply for a position on the leadership team, please fill out the interest list form below:
Alternative Breaks@UCSD Leadership Interest List Form
The Coordinators
Alternative Breaks @ UCSD has three co-coordinators for this year. Each coordinator collaborates with all Chairs and Site Leaders. Each co-coordinator collaborates which one another to complete collaborative projects that benefit all members of Alternative Breaks @ UCSD.
Aaron Speer, Earth Hasassri, Ashley Gee
Executive Board (E-Board)
The executive board, or E-Board, is made up of 10 Chair positions, some with Co-Chairs. Chairs have a specific specialization, but work collaboratively with Co-Coordinators, Chairs, and Members of AB@UCSD.
Fundraising & Finance Co-Chairs
Plans fundraising events, manages budgets, and finds fundraising opportunities.
Orientation/Reoriention (OReo) Co-Chairs
Plans quarterly retreats, logistics, orientation, and post-trip reorientation events.
May Chang & Albert Le
Internal Relations Chair
Coordinates communication between members in relation to recruitment, retreats, pre and post trip, etc.
Keerit Purewal
External Relations Chair
Coordinates communication between Community Advisors/Alumni Members and members/leaders.
Natasha Dua
Programming Chair
Coordinates events between Alternative Breaks@UCSD and the larger UCSD community.
Joanna Hoang & Spencer Nguyen
The Site Leaders
Alternative Break trips require 2 committed site leaders that are trained extensively even prior to the start of the academic year. They then recruit members and co-lead trips nationally and internationally. Site Leaders help plan the trip from working with non-profits, to buying plane tickets. They are the logistic handlers that make the experience worth while and meaningful for the members they recruit to their Alternative Break team.
Stella Chen & Edward Chen
Christine Calabio & Ray Jang
Derek Bangs & Rebecca Nassimi
Nicole Mark & Brian Phan
Spencer Nguyen & Abby Avila
Justin Javier & Jennifer Yanga
Lindsay Dacuan & Natasha Dua
Jennifer Ma & Albert Le
Rishi Parikh & Maria Cuevas
Fernando Picazo & Kim Vu
The Advisor
Every student organization would do well with an advisor. Our advisor for the year is Ryan Crawford. This person helps with everyone’s leadership development, as well as advising for the entire organization. This person helps the leaders deal with university policy and procedure. In addition, this person provides everyone with support on projects and the trips.
Ryan Crawford
