“Chat Mouth”
Celeste Hamilton Dennis’s eight-year-old daughter calls her "chat mouth." That’s because she likes to talk, and likes to hear what you have to say. It goes without saying that it’s hard to leave parties.
Celeste grew up in Levittown, New York. She studied literature at Boston College and University College Dublin and after graduating, was faced with a choice: become a music journalist, or head to the Peace Corps in Guyana. She chose Guyana.
That started a decades-long career in nonprofit communications which took her to New York City, Buenos Aires, and Portland, Oregon. She worked for Idealist.org, where she wrote extensively about changemakers. Solutions journalism was the logical next step. Now, she actively reports on responses to social issues—often at the intersection of art, mental health, education and women’s rights.
She’s also a creative writer and currently trying to merge the two at UC Berkeley where she’s studying long-form journalism. She digs it, a lot.
Photo credit: Buddy Terry