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Meet DeJeana
I'm a California native shaped by two decades of work across technology, design, real estate, and consulting, with a foundation in business and an Ivy-League education in architecture. I've led transformation work as a Big-4 Partner, guiding Fortune 500 leaders through moments of reinvention that redefined how people work, connect, and experience their surroundings.
My love of cities and spaces began as a child staring up at skylines, a curiosity that eventually brought me to Chicago, my home for the past 15 years. My love of plants grew from a family of green thumbs and a desire to bring warmth and nature to the places we inhabit.
After years advising clients on how the built environment shapes behavior and culture, I saw a gap between how we design spaces and how we actually live and work within them. podhoppr is the culmination of these threads; it is an ecosystem where environments, wellbeing, and expression come together to help people and organizations thrive.
podhoppr exists because we're living in unprecedented times. It is a moment where speed, automation, and constant acceleration are reshaping what it means to be human.
My work has always lived at the intersection of people, space, and transformation, and podhoppr is my way of preserving (and elevating) the parts of life that are physical, sensory, visceral, and poetic.
As technology and AI reconfigure how we live and work, bringing new opportunities alongside new questions, I'm committed to creating experiences that help to keep us grounded, connected, and expressive.
In a world of automation, the humanity in us becomes increasingly more important: our stories, our communities, and our ability to create meaning together.