Mae Djachechi is a multilingual builder and cultural producer operating at the intersection of the African Diaspora’s two largest hubs: New York and Salvador, Brazil. As the founder of the nonprofit Divine Times Collective, Djachechi draws on a background of education and the Psychology of Play as a primary technology for ancestral reclamation and cognitive healing.
Djachechi architects communal environments that transform world-building into tangible practice. Her approach utilizes a reciprocal, self-sufficient ecosystem of designing high-impact restorative retreats and cultural exchange tours that directly subsidize community-led skill-sharing workshops and festivals. The process implements "Imagination Reparation,” Djachechi’s curriculum of play-based ancestral practices. Divine Times remains a permanent, community-owned resource independent of external reliance.
Currently scaling this work into a transcontinental platform of exhibitions and lectures, Mae’s mission is to prove that community-led play is a life-saving technology for longevity and liberation, effectively lowering the biological markers of weathering across the Diaspora.