Chelsea Casabona

Chelsea is a documentary filmmaker and journalist based in New York City. Her words have appeared in Mosaic, an NJ-based outlet, where she wrote about arts, culture, health, and sports.

She is currently a correspondent and videographer for PBS's "A World of Difference: Embracing Neurodiversity," a groundbreaking series produced by Beacon College in Leesburg, Florida. Her first "Family Matters" segment, a powerful five-minute piece she filmed and edited, premiered in February 2025 on WUCF-TV and is available for streaming on the PBS app.

Chelsea was influenced early in life by the film Bahía de Cochinos, Nuestra Perspectiva: a documentary about the Bay of Pigs Invasion through the eyes of Cuban exiles. Her grandfather, Angel Casabona, was one of the main characters in the documentary. Consequently, Chelsea spent her undergraduate years learning about history and politics while dabbling in videography.

In 2023, Chelsea combined her love for video creation and learning about the world around her by pursuing her master’s in documentary journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She graduated with honors in August 2024.

For her master’s project, Chelsea co-directed/produced/edited and filmed her first short-documentary, METTLE. The film was selected by the 2024 International Sport Film Festival where it won an award for the “Best Student Work”.