playwright

viral spoken word poet

author

veteran digital media producer

EDUCATOR

SPEAKER

women’s lifestyle influencer

Entrepreneur

Boss queen

FUN FACTS ABOUT DAYSHA

• She has studied salsa, bachata, bellydance, tango, kizomba, zouk, and heels.

• Her favorite color is gold.

• Her favorite Starbucks drink is an iced matcha latte with almond milk.

• Her most successful poem video, What I Wish Someone Told Me About Having Safe Sex, has over 1 million shares on Facebook.

• While she grew up in Cambridge, MA, her family is from Barbados and Nigeria.

• She thought she wanted to be a crime scene investigator after watching CSI in her teens. Then she took chemistry…

• Her favorite song lyric — “Everything I do I do it with a passion/If I gotta be a bitch I’mma be a bad one,” Kehlani, CRZY

Daysha Veronica is a passionate, relentless, tenacious hustler and creative “powherhouse” who has dedicated her life towards creating, supporting, and elevating the stories of women—black women in particular. She is a bold and colorful mosaic of strong, powerful, and loving women that she has had the honor and privilege of calling her family, her friends, her fans, and her collaborators. It has been through their words of encouragement, their honest perspectives, and their unyielding love that she pieces together the courage and the spirit everyday to make her dreams her reality.

She is an award-winning playwright, a veteran digital media video producer, a viral spoken word artist, a newly published author, and the H-Q-I-C (Head Queen In Charge) at Yes Queen, a self-confidence building blog, and platform for women that she founded.

Prior to creating Yes Queen, Daysha is most well known for being a viral video boss queen both in front of and behind the camera, at BuzzFeed.

While at BuzzFeed, Daysha produced over a hundred well-known, viral short-form videos that focused on gender, race, identity, health/wellness/fitness and body positivity. In just 3.5 years, these videos have collectively generated over half a billion views globally—with her five spoken word videos alone generating over 90 million views.

Her videos have been featured on Amazon Prime, Hulu, AppleTV, The Huffington Post, Bustle, and Refinery29, among other prominent media outlets, and she has been a featured guest speaker for CreativeLive, BLOGHER, Hubspot Academy, Concord Academy, Scripps College and more. She has also been a featured guest on various podcasts such as Peabody Award winning and NPR affiliated Adult ISH by YR Media, and Unheard by Project Ava.

Prior to BuzzFeed, she graduated cum laude from Scripps College with a Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies and Psychology.

In her senior year of college she wrote her first full-length play, Sisters/Sistahz, which went on to win the National Dr. Floyd Gaffney Award in playwriting from UC San Diego, among other prominent playwriting competitions. And it was her love of the theater that most recently brought her back to grad school for an MFA in playwriting from UCLA (Go Bruins!).

She resides in Los Angeles where she recently accomplished a long time goal and self-published her first e-book, Eat Your Way To Self-Confidence: How To Shed The Real Weight That’s Killing Your Confidence, Develop Healthy Sustainable Habits, and Finally Eat What You “Want!”. It is currently available for digital download in the Kindle store, and she hopes to have the audiobook, and physical book ready for purchase by the end of the year.

You can catch her on Insta-story (@dayshaveronica) sharing whatever healthy meal she’s enjoying or doing a fun DIY house project.

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