Chelsea Casabona

Chelsea Casabona is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. 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 on the 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 RMPBS, Chelsea worked as a cinematographer and editor with the production A World of Difference: Embracing Neurodiversity, a series produced by Beacon College and available to stream on the PBS app.

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