Drew-Shane Daniels

Drew-Shane Danielsis an award-winning editor and digital media strategist who focuses much of his work at the intersection of sexuality and new media.

In 2012, he launched the award-winning site MUSED Magazine Online, the digital destination for news, opinion, life and culture for modern black gay men. As the founder of DS3 New Media, which is the publisher of MUSED, the publication has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, E! Online, Queerty, Buzzfeed, among others. MUSED has been the backdrop to college theses and classroom curriculum at prominent universities like Columbia University, Ohio University and University of Missouri’s School of Journalism. At DS3 New Media, Drew-Shane has developed successful marketing campaigns targeting black gay men ages 18-34, branded content and curated social media advertorials for leading public health organizations, such as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Center for Black Equity, Human Rights Campaign, National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) among others.

As a freelance writer he has written for outlets like The Huffington Post, VIBE, Global Grind, BET.com, Soul Train, Clutch Magazine, Black College Wire, and many more. He has worked closely under editors from the New York Times, Boston Globe and Schurz Communications. He's held internships with the New York Times Student Journalism Institute, Louisiana Data News Weekly, the Tennessean, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education and Noblesville Daily Times. He’s also been featured as a panelist for the Young Black Gay Leadership Initiative conference in Atlanta and various online Twitter chats as an authoritative voice for black gay men. He was recently featured inBET’s “Got Next: 30 Young Men on the Brink of Making It Big.”

As an alum of Drexel University, he leverages his Master’s of Science in Nonprofit Administration to re-imagine strategies for cultivating diverse audiences across various media platforms. The aim of his thesis was to discover and understand if non-profit organizations in Philadelphia were responding to the growth of wealth in the African American community. The research helped develop best practices for fund development officers to consider when engaging this key population. He also holds his Bachelors of Arts in Mass Communications/Marketing from Dillard University in New Orleans.