Celia is Director of Education & Learning with Legitimate, the Journalist’s Toolkit. She holds a Master of Arts from the Missouri School of Journalism, where her thesis project was on local news sustainability and innovation. Prior companies she worked for in consulting, revenue strategy, business development, audience engagement, and product development capacities include Global Press, Vice Media LLC, The 614 Group (a management consultancy for digital media), Operative Media, MSNBC.com, and Microsoft. Celia spent 14 years living and working in Asia, moving there to join the launch team of STAR TV, Asia’s first satellite TV broadcaster. While in Asia, she went on to work as Executive Vice President & General Manager for Turner Entertainment before joining Microsoft as General Manager for MSN Asia. Celia began her career in television news on the production crew of ABC News 20/20, before moving to the business side with Public Television International. Celia was a 2023-24 Fellow with the Reynolds Journalism Institute where she developed the first-ever Chrome extension of a newsroom’s style guide. She serves as an Alumni Trustee for Hampshire College, as a Board Director for the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) Seattle, as National Co-Chair of the AAJA Style Guide Committee, as Treasurer on the board of InvestigateWest, and volunteers as a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate). With roots across three continents, Celia is a licensed basketball and soccer referee and a choir singer.