Tribes of New York: Afropolitans

"I identify with this event because I'm Black and Puerto Rican," said Cierra Pacheco, who studied video editing at NYU. "I haven't networked much yet, but I'm really feeling the crowd."

Shana McClammy (left), of New Jersey, studied at Dartmouth's business school and now works in environmental conservation.

Cassandre Theano, an international human rights lawyer, usually only comes for the party, but this time she arrived early to network. "Initially, I wasn't sure if it was just a party or a networking event, but it's both," she said. "The music here is like a tour of Africa and the Caribbean, and being from Haiti, it speaks to me on a different level."

Femi Gbede usually goes to the Copacabana every other Friday because, he said, "it's always electric." The dapper lawyer from Nigeria continued: "I love any song that I can dance to, which is always the case here."

As a first-timer to the event, paralegal Jason Ricketts was thrilled to be at this year's final party. "If it is this good every time, then I am definitely looking forward to making it next year."