about

Celestina (Cella) Wright

Cella (sounds like “Chella”) is based in New York. She’s a Senior Editorial Producer at TED-Ed, where she generates lesson ideas and collaborates with educators to write engaging, rigorous scripts on just about anything under the sun, plus a few things above and beyond it.

She graduated from Oberlin College in 2018 with a B.A. in Biology and Comparative Literature and a minor in Hispanic Studies. She was awarded Highest Honors for her senior thesis, "The Nature of Narratives and the Narratives of Nature: Folktale Ecology, Wildlife Film, and Wild Metamorphoses.”

Cella’s work centers around science, nature, social justice, and the inherent absurdity of life—insert “winky face” here, for better or for worse.

Her solo short film project, “Mosquito Metamorphosis,” examines the mosquito life cycle in macro-photographic detail and was named Best Young Talent at Innsbruck Nature Film Festival 2018.

Her hands sort of always have to be busy—whether with ceramics, embroidery, or (rotoscope) animation. She’s continuing learning Spanish and is hoping to soon form sentences in Portuguese capable of perhaps dazzling a native speaker 6 years of age or younger.