Deja Beamon is a PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Associate at the Ohio State University in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. After graduating from Duke University with a BA in Women's Studies, Deja went onto complete her Master of Arts in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University.

Continuing on to pursue her PhD at OSU, Deja's research focuses on black biracial daughters of white mothers, exploring how racialization is a temporal experience.