This is not school.
NewComm is a network of live companies and the project is the teacher. Students don't study business. They run one. They don't read about leadership. They practice it every week, in real time, with real stakes.
Four years. Every year, more responsibility.
Freshman — General Member. Get invited. Attend Design Studios. Test what companies build. Decide if you want in.
Sophomore — Engaged Member. Get drafted. Take a specialized role — Budget, Program Development, External Partners, or Marketing. Execute a $10K project. Get paid.
Junior — Fellow. Lead a company. Develop the prompts. Draft your team. Own the budget. Bring lived experience to proximate leadership.
Senior — Legacy Circle & Managing Partners. Flip to the other side of the table. Lead Roundtables, guide younger students, and shape how NewComm grows. The community that invested in you — you invest back.
The front door is always open.
Supper Club is NewComm's signature gathering — a monthly meal that brings Fellows, Members, and professionals together around a shared theme. Not a networking event. Not a panel. A table where everyone belongs.
Each Supper Club is anchored in a theme that guides the conversation — wellness, leadership, identity, career, community. The food is good. The company is real. And something happens when you share a meal with people who treat you as an emerging colleague rather than a student to be managed.
For students, Supper Club builds the confidence and professional fluency that no classroom can teach. For professionals, it's a chance to expand what they think leadership looks like — and who gets to lead. The relationship you start at Supper Club becomes the internship, the reference, the open door at 26.
Black literature as operational technology.
Every Fellow cohort reads a novel together — not as cultural enrichment, but as infrastructure. Literature from historically marginalized communities already contains the diagnosis of systemic problems and the logic of innovative solutions. Fellows read to find both.
The novel isn't studied. It's used. Fellows spend the summer extracting hypotheses from the text — ideas about power, community, and intervention — then testing those hypotheses against real data in the communities they come from. The project that emerges isn't inspired by the book. It's built from it.
Four weeks. Real work. Every month.
NewComm runs on a monthly rhythm called The Loop. Not a curriculum — a cycle of execution. Each week connects to the next. The project is always moving. Students are always driving it.
Not a simulation. A starting point.
NewComm projects aren't school assignments with a due date. They're real interventions — tested in the community, analyzed for impact, and handed off to institutions with the expectation that they continue. Students build the prototype. The institution takes it from there.
