Celeste graduated from Virginia Tech, Magna Cum Laude, with a Bachelor of Architecture in 2025. In school, Celeste studied in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland at the Steger Center for International Scholarship. Celeste’s work explored the intersection between form, function, and materiality, and the ability for architecture to shape communal and individual experiences at both the scales of the minute detail to the broader, more contextual adjacencies. Celeste’s work in school explored both analog and digital representational tools and the integration of other art mediums to convey a project’s vision in a new and more profound way.

Celeste was awarded as a finalist for Virginia Tech’s Hanbury Thesis Prize in her final year of school. Her thesis examined architecture as the mediator to shape the phenomenological experience of self, community, and nature within the context of a communal living program. She presented ways in which an individual may simultaneously create a newfound awareness of themselves and others through architectural manipulation.

Celeste interned at DXA Studio in the summer of 2024 and joined the firm in July of 2025.