About After Daze
A taste incubator & community ecosystem.
After Daze grows out of the College Daze journey. We create experiences, programs, stories, travel, culture and community for the life people are building after college.
What we believe
Not everyone is tasteful. But tasteful people can come from anywhere.
What we make
Culture you can enter.
Art, design, food, fashion, music, hospitality, travel and cultural knowledge should not be reserved for people born into the right networks.
Experiences
Art shows, creative DJ sets, block parties, tastings, dinners and ideas that feel different.
Programs
Workshops, conversations, mentorship and professional pathways.
Objects
Furniture, decor and merchandise that bring the After Daze point of view home.
Stories
Creative lives, cultural perspective and the people shaping what comes next.
Cities
Local relationships and recurring community across New York, Charlotte, Atlanta and Washington, DC.
What we have proven
Taste becomes infrastructure.
Our work shows up in the systems behind the moment: local community, repeatable programs, complete creative worlds and a bridge from college into city life.
Multi-city community
New York and Charlotte teams build locally while staying connected to one After Daze standard.
Ideas into repeatable formats
We turn concepts into signature programs and recurring experiences that can learn and improve.
Direction through execution
Our team connects visual identity, promotion, production, operations and documentation around one point of view.
A college-to-city bridge
After Daze carries community and cultural infrastructure beyond graduation and into the cities where people build their lives.
Who we make it for
People building what comes next.
After Daze is for young Black tastemakers—professionals and creatives including HBCU alumni, founders, artists, teachers, cultural workers and people building careers and creative lives.
You do not have to come through College Daze to find your place here.
The people
Different disciplines. One standard of taste.
After Daze is built by artists, organizers, connectors, strategists and producers working across cities.
New York
Sekou
Creative Director / City DirectorTurns the After Daze point of view into experiences, objects, partnerships and worlds while directing the New York team.
SkillsCreative direction · City leadership · Experience design · Partnerships
Use Sekou when the idea needs a complete creative world or a New York point of view.
Jaylin
Director of EngagementBuilds the relationships that turn an audience into a community.
SkillsCommunity engagement · Relationship building · Audience retention
Use Jaylin when you need people to move from seeing the work to belonging inside it.
Sila
Signature Program DirectorTurns good ideas into programs that can repeat, improve and scale.
SkillsProgram design · Format development · Repeatability
Use Sila when one strong idea needs to become a program that can repeat and improve.
Derrick
Art DirectorTranslates the After Daze point of view into a visual language across campaigns, events and objects.
SkillsArt direction · Campaign systems · Visual storytelling
Use Derrick when the concept needs a visual language people can recognize.
Vierra
Event CoordinatorTurns After Daze concepts into physical experiences that work.
SkillsEvent coordination · Production logistics · On-site execution
Use Vierra when a concept must become a functioning physical experience.
Jamie
PR DirectorShapes how After Daze enters the conversation with media, partners, influencers and the public.
SkillsPublic relations · Media positioning · Partner and influencer outreach
Use Jamie when the work needs a clear public story and the right people in the conversation.
Charlotte
Myles
City DirectorBuilds the After Daze ecosystem in Charlotte, connecting local people, culture and opportunity to the larger DAZE world.
SkillsCity strategy · Ecosystem building · Partnerships · Opportunity design
Use Myles when the project needs a Charlotte strategy, local alignment or a path into the larger DAZE ecosystem.
Swavee
Art DirectorShapes the visual language of After Daze Charlotte.
SkillsArt direction · Local visual identity · Campaign design
Use Swavee when a Charlotte project needs a strong and locally grounded visual language.
Primo
PR Director / Event CoordinatorBridges getting people excited about an experience and making sure it happens.
SkillsPromotion · Public relations · Event coordination
Use Primo when audience excitement and event execution need to move together.
Ways to work with us
Bring the brief. We will build the team.
Start with the outcome you want. After Daze brings together the right creative, community, communications and production disciplines around it.
Build a cultural experience
Create the concept, visual identity and physical production for an event or public gathering.
Built withSekou, Derrick or Swavee, Vierra or Primo, and Jamie
Turn an idea into a program
Develop one strong idea into a repeatable format with a clear audience and operating rhythm.
Built withSila, Jaylin and the relevant city team
Enter a city with relevance
Build a locally grounded approach through city leadership, relationships, creative direction and execution.
Built withMyles or Sekou with local art, PR and operations
Shape a public moment
Give a campaign or announcement a recognizable visual language, public story and audience connection.
Built withDerrick or Swavee with Jamie or Primo
Develop an object or branded world
Turn a point of view into an object, environment or story with a coherent creative context.
Built withSekou with the art direction team
Your path in
From inquiry to impact.
A simple path for turning the first conversation into something people can enter, experience and remember.
Tell us what you are building
Share the idea, city, audience, timeline and budget.
Meet the right team
We connect the disciplines and city leadership your brief actually needs.
Shape the scope
Together we define the concept, outcomes, responsibilities and working plan.
Build and launch
The team develops the work, produces the moment and documents what happened.
Review what comes next
We assess the response, capture the learning and decide what should repeat or scale.
Inside the build
Taste needs execution.
For an event engagement, this is the operating path underneath the public moment.
Concept
Idea, budget, capacity and ticket pricing.
Venue
Find, contact, tour, negotiate, contract and deposit.
Creative
Name, theme, visual direction, campaign and content.
Marketing
Social, ticketing, SMS, email, PR and outreach.
Talent
DJs, hosts, photographers, videographers, vendors and staff.
Operations
Insurance, permits, run of show, check-in, environment and signage.
After the event
Pay vendors, collect content, review analytics, report profit and recap as a team.
Work with After Daze
Bring us something worth building.
Tell us the idea, city, audience, timeline and budget. We will connect the right people and build the path forward.