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The Visual Power of Black Rest by Emily Lordi for The New Yorker (October 2023)
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People Powered by Wava Carpenter for Design Miami (August 2021)

Dejha Carrington is an arts worker and co-founder of Commissioner. Her work focuses on supporting artists and building models for access in the arts.

In 2017, Dejha co-founded Commissioner, an art membership program that helps people collect the work of contemporary artists in their cities. Inspired by African, Caribbean, and women-led savings strategies, Commissioner uses group economics to commission visual artists. In addition to running Commissioner, she consults on strategic planning, programming, and storytelling for organizations and social impact initiatives. From 2015 to 2022, Dejha served as Vice President of Strategic Communications for YoungArts, the national foundation for the advancement of artists. Previously, she led outreach and public relations for projects with Kimball Art Museum, the Medellin Biennial in Colombia, and National Film Board of Canada.

Dejha is a board trustee of MAP Fund (known initially as the Multi-Arts Production Fund) and a professional advisory committee member of Miami-Dade Art In Public Places and New York University’s Center for Global Black Studies. She shares her time with The Black School and Artists in Residence in the Everglades (AIRIE). A Montreal native and McGill University graduate, Dejha calls Miami her home base.