Chelsea Gregory (she/her) is a consultant, coach, cultural strategist and community-engaged creative who has worked for over two decades with arts organizations, educational institutions, corporations, and community-based organizations. She is Resident Cultural Strategist at the Othering & Belonging Institute, a founding member of the Belonging Resident Company, professional faculty at UC Berkeley, and a consultant/ coach with Culture Shift Agency in addition to her own practice.

Areas of expertise include: design for belonging, anti-oppression practice, cultural and narrative strategy, applied theater, popular education, participatory research, community engagement, intercultural and leadership communication, restorative justice, mindfulness, and somatics. 
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Her work takes the form of: panel discussions, speaking engagements, teaching and facilitation, script and content review, curriculum development, program and process design, organizational culture and impact analysis, evaluation and assessment, strategic planning, and community engagement.

As a consultant, Chelsea has worked with teams and individuals at Lionsgate Studios, Earthjustice, the Othering & Belonging Institute, Climate Nexus, Lincoln Center Education, Ensemble Studio Theater, Meta, Roots Community Health Center, The Brooklyn Library, The Brooklyn DA's Office, Rutgers University's Humanities Action Lab, CUNY Creative Arts Team, Urban Bush Women, NYC Arts in Education Roundtable, and CORE Dance. From 2015 to 2018, she also served as the Director of Community Engagement for Working Theater, and from 2017 to 2019 she was a lead trainer for the NYC Department of Education's first city-wide Restorative Justice Initiative.
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Chelsea spent the first two decades of her career as an arts educator and facilitator of professional development for fellow educators - specializing in arts integration, leadership development, social-emotional learning, culturally responsive teaching, and restorative justice. Since then she has continued to support both public and private school educators, and has also been a guest artist or guest lecturer at The New School, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, Brown University, UMASS Amherst, and Kennesaw State University. In 2020, she joined the teaching faculty of UC Berkeley's Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies - teaching theater and performance studies, facilitating professional development for fellow faculty, and winning the 2025 UC Berkeley TDPS Social Justice Award. In 2023 she joined the professional faculty for Haas School of Business teaching courses in social impact leadership, relational intelligence, intercultural communication, public speaking, high impact teaming, and conflict navigation. 

In 2019, Chelsea was part of the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute in Brooklyn, NY with adrienne maree brown, and the principles articulated through emergent strategy continue to shape every aspect of her practice. She has also trained with the Academy for Coaching Excellence, the Empowerment Institute, Circle Keepers, and the Presencing Institute. She received her B.A. in Community Empowerment and Creative Culture from New York University's Gallatin School, and her M.F.A. in Theater and Contemporary Performance - integrating theater, mindfulness and somatics as tools for education and community building. In 2011 she presented at the Hemispheric Institute's Graduate Convergence at Duke University, and in 2016 she was selected as part of the Hemispheric Institute's EMERGENYC. Her writing has been published in Occupying Privilege: Conversations on Love, Race and Liberation, Steve Cannon’s A Gathering of the Tribes, The Charis Review and We Got Issues! A Young Woman’s Guide to a Bold, Courageous and Empowered Life.

For more information about her work as a creative, visit the Community-Engaged Arts page.