In 2017, Dejha Carrington cofounded Commissioner, an innovative membership model and social practice that brings locals together to support contemporary artists and collect art in their cities. As Executive Director, she has cultivated an inclusive community that has collectively funded over 50 curated artist commissions in Miami, Detroit, Montreal, and Mexico City, with plans for national expansion through 2030. Through programs that offer transformative access, knowledge, travel, and economic tools, Carrington is creating systems that inspire people to creatively engage with the world around them and live with art as a form of cultural memory at home.

From 2015 to 2022, Carrington served as Vice President of Strategic Communications for YoungArts, where she led a dedicated team of writers, designers, archivists, and digital 

storytellers advancing the U.S. foundation’s mission to nurture the careers of emerging artists and alumni. Previous experience includes spearheading press relations and strategy for private and public institutions, such as the Kimbell Art Museum, the Medellín Biennial in Colombia, and the National Film Board of Canada.

Carrington is an active board member of MAP Fund in New York, The Black School in New Orleans, and the Community Justice Project in Miami. She is also a Professional Advisory Member of Miami-Dade Art in Public Places. In 2025, she was awarded the Creative Futures Fellowship at the University of Miami’s Center for Global Black Studies, where she organized the exhibition Strange Celestial Road by Alexandra Fields O’Neale on view through May 2027. Additionally, Carrington is the 2026-2027 Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at New York University’s Center for Black Visual Culture. She teaches The Business of Art, an undergraduate course at the New World School of the Arts at Miami-Dade College.