Chelsea Green is a newly minted PhD at Harvard University’s Department of Government. Chelsea’s work deploys computational social science methods, including machine learning, to understand organizational behavior. Her dissertation project, “The Great Divide Between the Wealth of Nonprofits and Their Communities” involved scraping, using APIs, and analyzing millions of I.R.S tax filings to create five original datasets on organizational and community-level financial health. Chelsea’s past research has also focused on organizational adaptation to climate change, and has investigated corporate talk and shareholder activism on climate change.
During the 2021-2022 academic year, Chelsea was a Teaching Fellow for The Politics of Climate and the Environment and served as the Government Department’s graduate student representative to the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee. She also co-organized the Weatherhead Center’s Climate Pipeline Project, which highlights the research of younger climate scholars while fostering their connections to senior scholars. During the 2020-2021 academic year, Chelsea served as a writing fellow for American Foreign Policy and teaching fellow for International Political Economy, earning a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for both courses. Chelsea is an affiliate with the Sustainability, Transparency, and Accountability Research (STAR) Lab, a Weatherhead Graduate Student Associate, a Canada Program fellow, and an affiliate of the Institute of Quantitative and Social Science (IQSS).
Before attending Harvard University, Chelsea served as a Scoville Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, where she studied emerging powers in the global nuclear order. She then returned to Stanford University, where she obtained her B.A. in Political Science, to manage domestic and international public opinion surveys on nuclear weapons as a research assistant for Professor Scott Sagan. As an undergraduate at Stanford, Chelsea completed an Honors Thesis with the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) utilizing survey experimental methods to investigate American public opinion on torture.
Chelsea is from Los Angeles, CA, and currently spends much of her free time dissertation writing, getting settled into her new Seattle neighborhood, and hiking around the Pacific Northwest.
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