Background
Celeste was born in Krems, Austria.
Celeste was born in Krems, Austria.
Celeste holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in women"s studies, a public policy law degree from Capital University, and a master"s degree in alcoholism and drug abuse ministry from the Methodist Theological School in Ohio. She is also a licensed Polarity practitioner. She was an Ohio delegate to the Democratic Convention in 1980.
Since 1992, she has continued to remain politically active through such organizations as the National Peace Institute, Women"s Action for Nuclear Disarmament, the Council for Ethics in Economics, and the Women"s Community Fund in Cleveland.
She was one of seven women, the "Danube Seven", ordained by Argentinian independent Catholic bishop Rómulo Antonio Braschi on a boat on the Danube River, making her the first female American Roman Catholic to call herself a priest. Celeste serves as the executive director of the Tyrian network, "an intentional learning community founded in 2000 on Kelleys Island, Ohio and dedicated to Brigid, both the Goddess and the Saint".
She is the author of the auto-biographical book We Can Do Together: Impressions of a Recovering Feminist First Lady. She has also participated in productions of The Vagina Monologues.
She is a long-standing professional Life Balance Coach who developed an individualized three-month coaching process designed to empower one to discover a life worth living by embracing the life one is truly called to