Chelsea Casabona

Chelsea Casabona is a documentary filmmaker and journalist based in Colorado Springs. Her work has spanned topics from health to immigration, often documenting how national policies impact people locally. She is currently a multimedia journalist with Rocky Mountain PBS covering southern Colorado.

Chelsea’s independent work as a co-director, cinematographer, and editor on her debut short documentary, METTLE, won her the “Best Student Work” award at the 2024 International Sport Film Festival, a 2024 Gary Corcoran Student Prize for Excellence in Reporting on Disability, and a 2025 Pulitzer Center Fellowship.

Prior to working at Rocky Mountain PBS, Chelsea worked as a cinematographer and editor with the production A World of Difference: Embracing Neurodiversity, a groundbreaking series produced by Beacon College that airs on PBS and is available to stream on the PBS app.

She graduated with honors from the documentary specialization at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2024.