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Helping people help
Community Outreach Coordinator/Freelance Journalist
Celeste grew up in the first suburb of Levittown, NY. After 18 years of living among cookie-cutter houses, she realized there was more to explore and pursued her love of literature at Boston College and University College Dublin. Lured by the desire to help people and the prospect of having a pet monkey, Celeste joined the Peace Corps upon graduating. In Guyana she taught reading at a high school, dreamed of finding a baccoo (just ask—she’ll tell you all about them) and perfected her karaoke skills. From the equator she moved north to Chicago where she worked with gay youth and pretended to be a music journalist. Her time in the Midwest was brief; cacti and chili peppers drew her to the desert of Arizona where she found a job in HIV prevention. A tia loca, she then returned to her home state, and fell in love both with her new niece and Brooklyn. While in NYC, she found a job with Idealist.org and was lucky enough to relocate to Buenos Aires a year later. She wakes up everyday feeling lucky that she can help tell the stories of people doing good in the world through developing podcasts. Celeste is also a freelance journalist who has written about various subjects from dancehall to bowling, and is currently working on fulfilling her dream of becoming a Bollywood star.
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