Chelsea Rhodes

Chelsea Rhodes is the Program Manager for the Animal Law Education & Scholarship Program (ALESP) and the Transparency and Regulatory Affairs Program (TRAP) at ALDF. With the ALESP team, she manages the Animal Law Program’s law school initiatives, including student chapter programmatic work, the annual Student Convention, scholarships, academic outreach, and student events. With the TRAP team, she works on behalf of animals in laboratories, puppy mills, the entertainment industry, and factory farms through data gathering and analysis, strategic litigation support, and regulatory advocacy.

Before joining ALDF, Chelsea worked in student and faculty affairs at New York University and Yale University. Prior to her career in higher education, she also worked in PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Division.

Chelsea is based in southern California, where she lives with her family and the most affectionate tortie, Gladys.