Chelsea is Judicial Law Clerk at United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Prior to that, she worked as an attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center in their Jackson, MS office. She worked on a team dedicated to criminal justice reform, with the ultimate goal of drastically reducing the prison population within the state of Mississippi and across the southeast. Chelsea helped litigate cases focused on prison conditions and works with individual clients to gain parole eligibility. During her time in Ireland, Chelsea received an MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Her thesis and work in Ireland focused on applying the lessons of the American Civil Rights Movement and the Irish Civil Rights Movement in a modern context in American classrooms. Her current work as a civil rights litigator is an extension of this research, as Chelsea feels strongly that criminal justice reform is one of the defining civil rights issues of her generation. Chelsea graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law, with a focus on public interest law. While in law school, Chelsea was a senior editor for the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review and was awarded the highest honor for her commitment to pro-bono practice. Chelsea is a native of Hattiesburg, MS and attended the University of Mississippi, where she was a 2010 Harry S. Truman Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, and a part of the Hall of Fame.