Ebrahim Varachia Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, California, United States

• Consult with project creators in developing their projects from start to finish. Help with their pitch, video, reward incentives, marketing plan, and campaign execution.
• Maintained Patronicity website updates for projects.
• Responsible for building the Patron base, market projects through email marketing, social media blasts, flier/postcard distribution and attending meetings and events.
• Facilitated sponsorships and grants between projects and city/state-based organizations.

bench Consulting: A team of placemakers focused on helping hyper-local projects come to life to support vibrant, thriving communities.Through our years of work with Patronicity we’ve developed an understanding for not only whats possible but also what works and how to get things done. From alley activations to public art installations, Main Street district.

• As an entrepreneurial effort expanding the PoeticVisionTour, created a management company for lecturers and artists. Currently manages six clients in over one hundred engagements nationwide.
• Managed bookings for clients: network to locate hosts/venues in cities nationwide, arrange logistics from travel to program development, develop marketing materials, and create marketing strategy for cities and hosts.
• Started ‘The Razjan Tour’ – an educational speaking tour featuring our clients – which contracts a community for five consecutive months of programing and lectures, aligned with efforts to expand booking opportunities.

• Network with hosts to book 75 city tour throughout the year while contract artists for performances.
• Responsible for expanding merchandise, developing graphic designed marketing materials and website concept, arranging travel logistics for artists, and maintaining tour budget.
• Created ‘the Hosting Model’ which lead to increase profit margins, reduced risk from small shows, increased show requests due to affordability of the performance, and reduced amount of time involved in preparing a show.

Herndon, VA

• Worked with Executive Director to plan details of summer program.
• Oversaw management of on-site operations, ensure student and instructor needs were met, managed accounting information, and developed solutions for increase revenue streams.
• Lead student recruitment campaign, assisted Marketing team with social media, contacted donors and community to expand organization's reach, and document policy and procedures for duration of summer program.

Ankara, Turkey

• Taught English as a primary instructor to university students for their last two and a half months of their first year and in preparation for the TOEFL exam.
• I conducted after hours comprehension and conversation activities to further learning outside the classroom where students who attended showed an improvement of an average of fifteen percent in weekly tests scores

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), International/Global Studies

Activities and Societies: Michigan Journal for International Affairs, UofM Horse Polo Team, Students for International Relief Efforts

High School