Our Team

Chelsea Gregory

Consultant/Coach

Chelse Gregory (she/her) is a cultural organizer, equity practitioner, master facilitator and coach who brings over two decades of experience working collaboratively with arts and educational institutions, non-profit organizations, corporations and communities. Her areas of expertise are equity, cultural responsiveness, restorative justice, community-engaged arts, applied theater, mindfulness and somatic practices. She collaborates with firms such as Create Forward and PowerTools for Progress as an equity practitioner, coach, curriculum writer and program developer. She is also a consultant with Urban Bush Women’s BOLD (Builders, Organizers and Leaders Through Dance) bringing her extensive background in community-engaged arts to projects at the intersection of arts and social change. Her most recent BOLD engagement was the interactive performance project “Hair and Other Stories,” for which Chelsea helped to design and facilitate audience engagement around the topic of racial equity. Other cultural organizing projects include Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s “Every 28 Hours,” Cornerstone Theater Company’s “California: The Tempest” and Working Theater’s “5 Boroughs/ 1 City.” She has consulted with organizations such as Lincoln Center Education, The Brooklyn Library, CUNY Creative Arts Team, SpaceWorks, NYC Arts in Education Roundtable, PURPOSE Productions and Gibney Dance. Her work in the field of education includes consultancies with numerous public and private grade schools as well as guest lectures at The New School, Columbia University, New York University, Brown University, UC Berkeley, and UMASS Amherst. She is an active member of Artists Co-Creating Real Equity, an affinity group of the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond.