Chelsea is a PhD student in the Anthropology department at UC Davis. She received her BA in Anthropology from UCLA in 2012 and her MS in Biological & Forensic Anthropology from Mercyhurst University in 2017. She is interested in modern human skeletal variation, within both an evolutionary and forensic framework. Her current research aims to investigate the genetic architecture underlying modern human body proportions, with an emphasis on identifying the nature of selection on skeletal modules.