Dejha Carrington consults on strategic planning, programs, and storytelling for nonprofits and social impact initiatives, and is dedicated to exploring models rooted in community and collaboration to support artists. In 2017, Dejha co-founded Commissioner, an art membership that helps people collect the work of contemporary artists in their cities. She serves as Executive Director and has launched the program in Miami, Detroit, New York, and, more recently, her hometown of Montreal. From 2015 to 2022, Dejha served as Vice President of Strategic Communications for YoungArts, the national foundation for the advancement of artists. Previously, she consulted on public relations with Kimball Art Museum, the Medellin Biennial in Colombia, and the National Film Board of Canada. Dejha is a board member of national performance arts funder MAP Fund; a professional advisory committee member of Miami-Dade Art In Public Places and the New York University Center for Black Visual Culture's Black Rest Project; and shares her time with The Black School, an experimental schoolhouse in New Orleans, and the Detroit Institute of Art’s Friends of African and African American Art. She calls Miami her home base.
