The UMAB Experience

Since UM Alternative Break's creation over eighteen years ago, thousands of students have elected to spend their Fall and Spring breaks learning about a community other than their own. Each and every year, our students come back from these trips more energized about advocacy and with a deeper understanding of the systemic issues behind their trip's focus. That said, the UMAB experience is an extremely personal one.

One student may be moved so strongly by their trip to La Plazita Institute in Albuquerque, for example, that they decide to change their major; another student may find a greater impact in the close friendships they made along the way. No matter what, the UMAB experience deeply affects our students in unique, sometimes unpredictable ways. Click on the pictures below to get a more personal look into our programs and the effect they have on our students.