Dee grew up in central Florida and the tidewater area of Virginia where she came to love the natural environment while fishing, exploring and sailing with her parents and brothers. Bitten by the adventure bug, Dee took seven years to graduate from college, taking time off between studies to pursue interests as varied as living in Paris for a year to learn French and travel Europe to sample the foods and culture; working for Club Med as a sailing and water ski instructor in Cancun, Mexico and as the travel office coordinator in Moorea, Tahiti; and consulting as a computer programmer for a private tax accounting firm. Graduating from W&M in 1983 with a business degree, Dee moved to Washington, D.C. for three years to work as a commercial lending officer at American Security Bank before returning to Williamsburg, VA to get married, have a family and pursue a career in residential real estate. In 1998, faced with raising a super-charged academically and athletically involved daughter as a newly-single parent, Dee established a private consulting business, formally incorporating in 2004 as Estates Assistants, Inc. Her work with private high net worth clients has taken her all over the world. In 2007, having seen her daughter off to college at Dartmouth in New Hampshire, Dee turned her focus toward a lifelong dream: bringing her business and adventure-minded interests to bear on an outdoors-based life.
Years of fishing the coastal and inland waters of Florida, fly fishing the American West and New Zealand, and sailing on the Chesapeake Bay left an indelible impression on Dee, and ultimately fueled her interest in marine conservation. She began diving in 1979 while working for Club Med, becoming perhaps the first American woman to dive the caves of the Yucatan. She subsequently dove extensively in the Mexican Caribbean and the Tahitian Society Islands, including the walls of Cozumel and the sleeping sharks of Isla Mujeres. In 2007, looking to push her personal outdoor adventure envelope, Dee began advanced technical dive training. She has assisted UEV in several advertising, documentary and proposed television projects to date.
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