Dea has a mindset for innovation and managing problems by first identifying root causes. She will work for EVERYONE in her district to produce the best outcomes for the future of every community. Dea's heart has always been with generational progress.
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the Freedom Center
Growing up in a segregated but nurturing community, the “northeast-side” of Oklahoma City, framed Dea's passion for local politics. At an early age, she joined the NAACP Youth Council headquartered at the historic Freedom Center across the street from her childhood home. Dea often attributes her grassroots activism as a result of being inspired by the larger-than-life civil rights leader Mrs. Clara Luper that led weekly youth meetings.
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school, training, military and government
Keeping a healthy conscience for human rights and political awareness; Dea pursued a degree in Industrial Engineering at Oklahoma State University after graduating with Honors from Del City Senior High School where she played basketball and ran track. At OSU, she was very active in the Black Student Union and pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. On school breaks, Dea interned as a (GS) engineer at Tinker Air Force Base.
Before returning to college for a degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) at the University of Central Oklahoma, Dea trained in Avionics while on active duty with the United States Navy before discharging through the US Naval Reserves. Using her MIS training, she began writing code in corporate settings as a software developer. This was also the time-frame in which she started her consulting business. Mid-stream in her IT career, Dea was introduced to county level politics as the first Business Analyst for the Oklahoma County Clerk's Office where she learned much about the internal and external negotiations involved in local government.
move to North Texas
In 2008, Dea earned a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) with emphasis on Engineering and Technology Project Management. Following graduation, she was inducted into Delta Mu Delta International Honor Society in Business. This new achievement brought about opportunities as she and the family moved to North Texas to work as a Senior Business Analyst and later as an IT Project Manager. After leaving full-time corporate employment, Dea worked four years with the DeSoto Independent School District as a substitute and early college academic facilitator.
These days, Dea and her husband live a semi-retired life in Kaufman County finding as much time as possible to go RVing and ebiking. She considers herself blessed to still be able to share her time and expertise doing business consulting for small enterprises; leading outdoor experiences by volunteering with Outdoor Afro; helping American Freedmen with their genealogy projects; volunteering for youth golf tournaments; and working with grassroots political committees like Justice For All Grassroots.
Over a year ago, she began publishing an eZine that digitally prints important articles not given time on traditional media outlets. Her nerd attributes encourage her to write fiction where she has self-published two Kemetic mythology books.
Reparations to repair
Dea is the proud American Freedmen that drafted the Texas Freedman Bureau Act of 2025. And she is the project lead for the evolving Reparations Plan presented by the Volunteer Council on Freedmen Affairs. Cut the Check.
