Celia Rosen

Education: Pursuing a BA in Medieval History at Barnard College of Columbia University

Recent projects include: Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation

Personal interests include: Cooking, hiking, citi-biking, free walking tours in new places, doing a perfect cartwheel one day

Celia is an undergraduate student at Barnard College majoring in History with a concentration in Medieval History and religion. Celia’s passion for social justice and prison reform led her to an internship at the Brooklyn Legal Aid Society’s Video Mitigation Project. An innovative new method of humanizing the justice system, this work uses documentary-style videos featuring clients and their families to tell clients' stories, portraying mood, pain, reflection, and humility in a way that legal paperwork simply cannot.

At Barnard, Celia has been involved with various volunteer projects. At Columbia Youth Adventures, she took middle school students from Morningside Heights on fun and educational weekend outings in the city. She then became a Democracy Coach at Generation Citizen, facilitating a civic engagement program with high schoolers in the Bronx so they could tackle local issues through engagement and community advocacy. At the Columbia/Barnard Hillel, Celia worked as an LGBTQ+ student engagement intern, ensuring that all Jewish students felt that they had a safe and welcoming religious community on campus. During the school year, Celia has also worked as a nanny, where, for over 2 years, she honed her skills as a playmate, travel companion, superhero enacted, and pasta chef.