New Orleans Alternative Spring Break

The first annual BRIDGE/SEA(Stern’s Social Enterprise Association) Alternative Service Learning Trek to New Orleans has reached capacity. The trek will include hands-on service projects, tours and interviews with people and organizations creating positive social change and sustainable development. This joint Wagner/Stern service trip will complement the international work that the Wagner service trip to Guatemala does each year.

A key component of the trip will be our meetings with a variety of public, private and nonprofit sector leaders in New Orleans. This year, the issues focused will include social entrepreneurship, economic redevelopment, and education. Participants will be given a chance to compare and contrast their opinions, experiences and lessons in such devastated environments as the lower 9^th Ward and St. Bernard Parish.

The trip will lbe rounded out with a variety of cultural field trips, including farmers’ markets, restaurants, live music venues, and street parades.  These will form the basis for the students to better understand the work they observe and to eventually return to New Orleans.  There will be a joint presentation following the trek for both Wagner and Stern students facilitated by both BRIDGE and SEA.