Chelsea Gregory (she/her) is a community-engaged artist, cultural organizer, facilitator, and coach who has worked for over two decades with arts organizations, educational institutions, corporations, and communities. She is a trainer with the social impact firm Create Forward in the areas of equity, belonging, and restorative practices. ​She also works with Inspire Justice and Culture Shift Agency as an equity coach, script reviewer, and social impact advisor. As a consultant, Chelsea has worked with teams and individuals at Ensemble Studio Theater, Facebook/ Meta, Lionsgate Entertainment, The Flea Theater, Lincoln Center Education, The Brooklyn Library, Earthjustice, The Brooklyn DA's Office, Climate Nexus, Rutgers Humanities Action Lab, CUNY Creative Arts Team, UC Irvine Dramatic Arts, Urban Bush Women BOLD, NYC Arts in Education Roundtable, and CORE Dance. From 2015 to 2018, she also served as Director of Community Engagement for Working Theater.

​She has been a guest artist or lecturer at The New School, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, Brown University, UMASS Amherst, and Kennesaw State. In 2020, she joined the teaching faculty of UC Berkeley's Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, also serving as an equity consultant and member of the department's Equity and Season Planning Committees. In 2023 she joined the professional faculty for Haas School of Business, teaching courses that build students' capacity to cultivate equity, belonging, and social responsibility in the workplace. She is also a member of the Othering & Belonging Institute's Belonging Resident Company.

Chelsea was part of the 2019 Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute in Brooklyn, NY with adrienne maree brown and fellow organizers, and the principles articulated through emergent strategy continue to shape every aspect of her practice. She has trained for almost two decades with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, which has also informed her approach to the various forms her work takes. She received her B.A. in Community Building and Creative Culture from New York University's Gallatin School, and her M.F.A. in Theater and Contemporary Performance from the interdisciplinary somatic-based program founded by Steve Wangh, Barbara Dilley, and Wendell Beavers at Naropa University. In 2011 she presented at the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics' Graduate Convergence, and was selected to be part of the institute's EMERGENYC cohort. 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.

She began her artistic career by dancing for choreographers such as Adia Whitaker, Shalewa Mackall, Marlies Yearby, Ned Williams, and D. Patton White, and performing spoken word poetry which lead to slam wins at Nuyorican Poet's Cafe and Bowery Poetry Club. In the mid-2000s she began to train as an actor and theater maker, eventually performing the role of Ariel in Cornerstone Theater Company's adaptation of The Tempest, lead roles in Cristal Chanelle Truscott's The Burnin, Kelly Zen Yie-Tsai's Murder the Machine, Kristoffer Diaz's Air, Paul Notice's Shoshanna's Coin, and was a member of the creative team for Cornerstone Theater Company's  Jason in Eureka and other community-engaged productions such as We Got Issues! and Every 28 Hours. Her original work has been produced by venues such as Culture Project, LaMama ETC, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Los Angeles Women's Theater Festival, La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley CA, and 7 Stages in Atlanta GA. Recent artistic projects have been in collaboration with Shotgun Players, Urban Bush Women, Cornerstone Theater Company, La Pocha Nostra, Working Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, SF Shakes, and ACRE (Artists Co-Creating Real Equity). For more information about her work as an artist, please take a look at the Community-Engaged Arts page.