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 (RMPBS).

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 that airs on PBS and is available to stream on the PBS app.

She graduated with honors from the documentary specialization at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2024.