Chelsea received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. While in law school, Chelsea worked in the International Human Rights Clinic, where she drafted a report for the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the migrant wage gap. Chelsea also interned within the Criminal Justice and Security Division at Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales in Argentina, where she worked on Institutional Violence initiatives.

Chelsea received her B.A. summa cum laude in political science and Spanish from West Virginia University.