Professor Miller Celestin was born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Professor Celestin graduated from the College of Mount Saint Vincent in 2013 with his B.S.N. and began his nursing career in New York City as a community mental health nurse at the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services and in the Adult Emergency Room at Harlem Hospital Center. Professor Celestin then relocated to Chicago, working in various nursing roles, including primary care and medical and surgical units. After eight years of working as a staff nurse and training many new nurses in his team, Professor Celestin realized his passion for nursing education. He obtained his M.S.N. with a concentration in Nursing Education from the University of Illinois–Chicago in 2021. Professor Celestin also works as a Registered Nurse in the Emergency Department at the University of Vermont Medical Center.

Professor Celestin’s work includes increasing the sense of belonging for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) nursing students as the Co-Director of a joint College of Nursing and Health Sciences and Larner College of Medicine mentorship program called Finding Affinity and Mentorship. His interests center on diversifying the nursing workforce and preparing nurses to understand health disparities better and address health inequities, particularly in the Emergency Department.

Areas of expertise: nursing education, diversifying the nursing workforce