Chelsea Casabona is a documentary filmmaker and journalist currently based in Colorado Springs. She covers rural communities in southern Colorado — and the natural, cultural and political changes they are reckoning with — for Rocky Mountain PBS.

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

Prior to working at RMPBS, Chelsea worked for the production A World of Difference: Embracing Neurodiversity, where she filmed and edited profiles of neurodivergent people and families and how they navigate the world with learning differences.

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