Chelsea has worked as an editor and writer at Columbia University Press, Ardis Press, Soft Skull Press, The New York Quarterly, and Little, Brown and Company. She holds a degree in English from The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU, and was a summer fellow at Clare College, Cambridge.

Her editorial portfolio spans a wide range of projects, including an ethnographic study published by Routledge and select episodes of the architecture and design video series Collecting Design produced by The New School.