As a maker and strategist, Juanli creates sculptures, cooks meals, maps pollution, or facilitates workshops as tools to help communities grow. In 2017 Carrion co-founded OSS Project, a non-profit that builds gardens in public housing as platforms to empower underrepresented groups, promoting economic and environmental resiliency. In 2023 he was awarded Van Alen Institute’s Common Build Award along with Rodolfo Kusulas for Whit Your Voice, a community engagement tool designed in collaboration to inform and hear the Gowanus residents about the ongoing rezoning.

Carrion has exhibited and worked with institutions such as the National Academy of Sciences and The Art Institute of Chicago in the US, Peru's Museum of Contemporary Art; ARTIUM, MUSAC, or CentroCentro in Spain; Ex-Teresa Museum and MUPO in Mexico; India's National Gallery of Modern Art or Servia’s Museum of Contemporary Art.

With more than a decade teaching at public and private universities, including NYU and SUNY, over the past seven years Carrión has been an Assistant Professor at The New School  where he teaches Creative Community Development, and where he has lead initiatives like the Creative Community Development Graduate Minor or the development of courses like Resilient, Mutual Development. He also lectured, led workshops, and participated at Conferences at Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, SVA, Pratt Institute, AIA New York, Fordham, or Getty Foundation.