Celia is a PhD candidate in Government at Harvard University, studying political theory. Her dissertation investigates the history and contestation of urban planning as a tool for management of social life. Examining the discipline of urban planning alongside artistic and activist movements, she analyzes how these different paradigms offer alternative conceptualizations of the built environment’s political power. Her work asks how their spatial theories articulate different normative questions about the knowledges, agency, and responsibilities of both designers and citizens. As part of a broader interest in political imaginaries, her research interests also include utopia, ideology, and social movements. Before Harvard, Celia studied political science at the University of Chicago, and taught middle school English courses in France. At Harvard, she has worked as a curriculum lead at the Democratic Knowledge Project at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics, and as a Media and Design Fellow at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Her work has been supported by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative. Her work has been published in Jacobin and KINO!.