Hello!
Nice to meet you :)
I am Valeria and if you are here you might be interested in knowing a little bit of my professional background and experience, so let’s start. Ideating, leading and producing creative projects has always been my passion throughout my professional career so far.
To date, my professional career has been split between creative design within the non-profit and social impact world, and event production. My experience has focused on projects that give back, embrace change, and have innovation at the heart of it. I am originally from Colombia and over the last decade have spent time studying and working in Germany and Spain, and have been permanently based in California since 2020.
From a design lens, I’m trained on software such as the Adobe Suite, confident with Art Direction, and Design. From an event production perspective, my skill set spans curating events, overseeing budgets, managing production timelines and co-ordinating speaker schedules in order to drive success and efficient results. For example, I’ve produced and facilitated Hackathons and workshops for non-profit and been involved with large-scale productions such as TEDxBarcelona (where the audience can go up to 800 people in the annual events), collaborative projects with indigenous leaders, social leaders, innovators, immigrant activists, makers, disability collectives, just to mention a few.
After a couple of years within the events space, I embarked on one of my most meaningful experiences, founding OurLinks, an organization based in Barcelona where the main objective was to promote collaborative environments and safe spaces for inclusive dialogues through training, projects and events. This gave me the opportunity to position myself as a connector between artists, designers, companies, funds and students; to help turn ideas into a reality. My creative background, persistence and self-confidence have given me the ability to be extremely resourceful and efficient with facilitating group discussions and collaborative environments, overseeing processes and goals, making colleagues feel important and valued, promoting and raising everyone’s voice, ideas and opinions to build the connections needed to enhance collaboration. I'm always interested in hearing new projects open to collaboration, ways I might be able to support with Design, Creativity and Production or just to say hi :
You can email me at valerialerbe@gmail.com