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Dejha is a creative worker and arts administrator. She consults on strategic planning, programming, and storytelling for nonprofits and social impact initiatives, and is dedicated to exploring models that are rooted in community and collaboration to support artists. Dejha is also a recognized speaker, frequently presenting on topics around access, entrepreneurship, and belonging with groups such as U.S. Presidential Scholars Foundation, Netflix, Americans For The Arts, and the University of Miami.
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 support visual artist commissions and has thus far placed 600+ seminal works with mostly beginner and first-time collectors. From 2015 to 2022, Dejha served as Vice President of Strategic Communications for YoungArts, the national foundation for the advancement of artists.
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Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) in partnership with the Everglades National Park, empowers artists to think creatively and critically about their relationship to the environment with a mission of revealing new paths forward. ABOUT US Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit operating in Everglades National Park (ENP) and the Greater Miami Area. We believe artists are essential problem solvers who can reveal new narratives and solutions for social and environmental change through their artistic storytelling.