Benjamin is a real estate investor, developer, and designer. His property management company, Nocturna Rentals, offers guests design-forward travel experiences in Tulum, Mexico and Joshua Tree, CA. During the pandemic, he co-founded Muse Society, a nascent coliving venture dedicated to helping remote workers, entrepreneurs, and artists reach elevated states of imagination and creativity.In 2015, Benjamin founded Conspire for Good, a strategy and research firm that helps progressive organizations achieve their goals and scale their impact. He has consulted to clients including UNICEF, Ford Foundation, Illumen Capital, NAACP, MoveOn.org, Free Speech TV, and The Inter-American Development Bank. He also provided counsel to The White House Office of Public Engagement under President Obama. A trained mediator and facilitator, Benjamin started his career at the leading international conflict resolution nonprofit, Search for Common Ground, supporting backchannel diplomacy in the Middle East.Benjamin has also been a performing musician for 15 years, playing guitar and singing in a variety of gypsy jazz ensembles. He first fell in love with Roma music in 2004 while living at The Fishtank, an artists’ warehouse in Oakland, California. Since then, he has dedicated his study to the music of Django Reinhardt and early American swing jazz. He has played on city streets and jazz clubs from Paris, Fez and Berlin to Bangkok, Tulum, and New Orleans.