We have played both leading and supporting roles in many change and community oriented groups. We have gained a great respect for the effort and mentality required to perform as leaders and managers of such organizations.
Benjamin helped found and became an initial elected director and officer of the Amazing Things Arts Center of Framingham, MA and surrounding communities. He cofounded the web development firm Agaric Design Collective.
Vafa gained experience in management at Blockbuster Video as a District Training Store Manager and led youth programs for the nonprofit Men’s Resource Center (MRC) of Western Massachusetts (www.mrcforchange.org). He started and led a project that trained college aged men to give workshops in middle schools and high schools in the western Massachusetts area on topics surrounding the male culture of violence. To build this program up from scratch, we wrote a grant proposal in order to receive funding, put up flyers and canvassed the area for volunteers, hired a training staff, and built partnerships with the Every Woman’s Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
