Samantha Brahms is a chief of staff at Orchard Global. She specializes in making strategic change across often complex organizations by overseeing day-to-day operations and effectively improving processes while managing relationships. Orchard Global asks her to additionally oversee the C-suite and manage political affairs initiatives at the firm. Brahms' previous and current leadership roles in the nonprofit, technology, and financial services space allows her to foster partnerships between global banks, Fortune 500 CEOs, and global political partners with projects focused on: energy, education, arts, peace, finance, and policy. Most recently she has been part of projects outside of the office with the WHC and Qatar embassy.
In her personal life, Brahms is passionate about the arts and founded the nonprofit Center for the Arts Scholarship Foundation at age 16. She is proudly affiliated with: NextGen Board for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Fort Lauderdale Children’s Theater, NYUAA, George & Barbara Bush Foundation, Navy Seal Foundation, and Atlantik-Brücke. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study (theater, political science, communications, and philosophy with Minors in law and psychology) and a Master’s degree from the CUNY Graduate Center.