Dejea is a Global Development and Sustainability student from the Cayman Islands. She has previously worked with  Protect Our Future, a youth-led organization in the Cayman Islands, that successfully campaigned against a government cruise berthing facility initiative. She has also worked at the Cayman Islands Ministry of Sustainability and Climate Resilience and as a Planeteer Alliance Ambassador. She is passionate about learning about global climate justice issues and how different countries deal with challenges facing their communities, in order to take these lessons back home and meaningfully apply them to the Cayman Islands development plans.