Religion Nerd, Mom, Book Lover
Chelsea Garbell is the Associate Director for Global Spiritual Life at NYU, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Wagner School of Public Service, and Adjunct Lecturer in the Silver School of Social work, where she teaches about religion, democracy, and peacebuilding. She has previously held positions at the Bronfman Center at NYU, the New York Southeast Asia Network, the Asia Society Policy Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Religion and Foreign Policy Program, and spent a year teaching English in Samut Sakhon, Thailand. Chelsea has over a decade of experience in interfaith activism, and today co-chairs a chapter of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, sits on the board of Friends of Givat Haviva, and is a member of the Interfaith America Emerging Leaders Network. Her writing has been featured in USA Today, The Diplomat, Religion Dispatches, Tablet Magazine, The Times of Israel, and MyJewishLearning.com. Chelsea holds a BSc in Communication and an MPA in international policy and development from New York University.