Lux Forum, a St. Helena thought-leadership organization founded and chaired by Celeste White, continues its program of events and speakers focused on gratitude, reflection, and positive social change. The organization operates as a venue for considered public conversation in Napa Valley civic life.
White serves as president and chair of the Board of Directors. Lux Forum’s programming is event-driven, built around speakers and discussions rather than publication or advocacy. The organization’s stated mission centers on three concepts: gratitude, reflection, and positive social change. Its work is in the convening, bringing community members across professional and civic sectors together to engage with ideas that may not have an obvious venue elsewhere.
Lux Forum occupies a different position than a service nonprofit or advocacy group. The organization is not delivering programs or pressing a single agenda. Its function is to formalize the kind of discussion that occurs informally throughout community life and to give it a structured venue. Programming reflects this orientation: curated speakers, considered topics, and discussions that build on the connections already present in St. Helena’s civic networks.
Lux Forum’s location in St. Helena situates its conversations in a place where community identity is already strong and where institutional and individual networks already overlap. The forum draws on St. Helena’s civic tradition while extending it into a venue for structured discussion. Its format leans on intentional curation of speakers and topics rather than a fixed editorial direction, which gives the organization flexibility to engage with the questions that feel most relevant in a given season.
White founded Lux Forum as part of a broader record of institutional commitments across faith-based and community organizations in Napa Valley. She has served on the Westmont College Board of Trustees since 2011, served as U.S. Pony Club District Commissioner for 17 years, and has been involved with The Salvation Army, Young Life, Hospice, Queen of the Valley Hospital, the Napa Valley Education Foundation Board, and Ag 4 Youth. She and her husband, Dr. Robert White, received The Salvation Army’s Nehemiah Award in recognition of their support for the Napa Culinary Training Program.
She is also the CEO and owner of Horse Rock Olive Oil, a small-batch estate-grown olive oil brand based on the family’s ranch near St. Helena. The breadth of her involvement across enterprise, education governance, faith-based service, and youth development reflects what she has described as a unified orientation toward commerce, community, and service.
The organization’s continued programming represents an expression of this orientation in a public-facing venue. Additional information about White’s professional and civic work is published at celestewhite.org.
About Lux Forum
Lux Forum is a St. Helena thought-leadership organization that hosts events and speakers focused on gratitude, reflection, and positive social change.
About Celeste White
Celeste White is the founder and chair of Lux Forum, CEO and owner of Horse Rock Olive Oil, and a member of the Westmont College Board of Trustees. She has been a longtime resident of Napa Valley.