Ceidlen Beller has been involved in the havurah movement since 1979, and with the NHC since 1981. Enthusiastic participation led to eventually six havurot in Rochester, NY where she resided for 40 years, being on the organizing committee of the NHC Canadian-American Retreat for 22 years, doing the site selection that took the NHC to Franklin Pierce University for more than a decade, co-chairing a Summer Institute in 2004, and serving on the NHC board off and on over a couple of decades.
In her other life, she had a family (two sons and their families are still involved in NHC) and worked for 38 years at the University of Rochester. In 1994 she started designing and crocheting kipot, which is still a big interest. She moved to Baltimore, MD in 2015 to be near family, and still does volunteer work for NHC.