Dette Pascual is a journalism graduate with a master's Degree in Educational Psychology from the Ateneo University in Manila, Philippines. Aside from 15 years as a guidance counselor, a significant experience for her was being a foreign correspondent in Washington D.C. for "Veritas," a Philippine newspaper that crusaded against the dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos. Among her later stint in writing was being a columnist in the "US Inquirer", a Filipino newspaper based in Los Angeles. She had a column: "Dateline: Santa Barbara."

For the past 4 years, she travels between the Philippines and the U.S., continuing to write about her traveling experiences in countries visited. Currently, she writes a weekly column, "If So...Then What?" for a local paper in the Philippines.