Celina is a spatial designer and researcher at Forensis (Forensic Architecture) in Berlin, Germany. Her design and research focus is landscapes of slavery, their afterlives, and material traces (architectural, ecological, and narrative). She was awarded the Harvard GSD’s Thesis Prize for her project Plantation Futures: Foregrounding Lost Narratives and the prestigious Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship. She also earned the 2023 Olmsted Scholar and the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Inclusive Community Design Award that reaffirms Celina’s commitment to both equity and design.

Celina Abba holds a Master of Landscape Architecture (Distinction), a Master of Architecture (Distinction), a Bachelor of Science in Biology, and a Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies.