K. Neycha Herford is an artist, crossfader and lifestyle architect with 18+ years of unique experience developing progressive platforms that encourage self-inquiry, facilitate personal transformation, and inspire radical change. Her multi-disciplinary background as a performer & recording artist, author, celebrity lifestyle expert, speaker and new media journalist provides a rich backdrop from which Neycha draws to provide the soundtrack to and catalyst for inspired, "naked" living.

 

Expert

A leading visionary in the field of personal growth and human consciousness for the past 19 years, Neycha's hip and progressive "not your momma's therapy" brand of counseling has made her a favorite among celebrities, 9to5ers, artists, rebels and everyday people who seek to live authentic lives. Through her progressive healing modality known as The Crossfade™, Neycha works with clients who seek to “remix” and transform their lives.

 

Personality

Regularly sought after by various media for her expertise, Neycha specializes in critical self-inquiry, crisis transformation, authentic "naked" living, career synthesis, creativity, grief & loss and radical lifestyle architecture. Her popular "straight up, no chaser" communication style earned a loyal following at ebonyjet.com, where she served as the resident advice columnist for two and half years.  Neycha later held post, for an additional two years as the resident lifestyle expert for CentricTV.com while hosting and producing "Situation reMixed" exclusively for the the brandʼs online blog, Culture List.

 

In addition to appearing on nationally syndicated radio programs like The Michael Biasden Show, Neycha’s work has also appeared in numerous popular journals, newspapers and magazines including The Huffington Post, Ebony Magazine, Essence.com, The Washington Post, The Root, ABC News, Time Out New York, Russell Simmonʼs Global Grind, and many others.  She currently writes a regular column for Heart & Soul Magazine and Essence.com while serving as the current conversations editor for Heart & Soul Magazine.

 

Communicator

Neycha is the co-director and lead moderator for Full Spectrum, Conversations among Artist, Activists, Explorers and Thinkers; a panel discussion series founded in 2006 by painter, art philanthropist and Def Poetry Jam producer Danny Simmons along with Brian Tate, founder of Curate NYC and The Tate Group.

 

A gifted communicator, Neycha combines her love of humor with her passion for perspective to conduct intuitive and compelling interviews with thought leaders like Dr. Cornell West, Rev. Dr. Iyanla Vanzant, Wanchegi Mutu, DJ Spooky aka Paul Miller, Dead Prez and many others. Her uncanny ability to put interview subjects at ease while probing far beyond the surface has made Neycha a natural choice for stirring intimate and provocative conversations. And it is her sensitivity as an artist and intuition as a counselor that provides a unique approach allowing Neycha to stand apart in canonizing the core essence of her subjects and getting to the story behind the story.

 

Singer-songwriter, Producer

Also an acclaimed musician, Neycha was named "A New American Badass" by Time Out New York.  Her genre defiant CDs the dirty side up and White Noise along with the acid hip-hop anthems for which Neycha is perhaps best known are what she calls “instinct music - from the guts out.” Her third album, The Holy Hell of Hope, is slated for a multi-installment release between 2013 and 2018.

 

Writer

She is the author of White Noise; a book written for those tragically bereaved, inspired by the murder of her long time beau in 2002. Since then, Neycha has been an advocate for other survivors of homicide victims as well as suicide survivors through her personal work, The White Noise Project.

 

The White Noise Project along with Neycha’s other properties, give testament to her profound commitment to providing safe spaces for others to share and reframe their stories while becoming conscious architects of their own reality.