Chelsea Ricker

Chelsea Ricker works to promote sexual and reproductive rights and health and focuses on youth and LGBTQI rights. A specialist in comprehensive sexuality education, Chelsea’s work has included the development of a fully interactive online sexuality curriculum for Nigeria, which currently reaches over 50,000 in-school youth in Nigeria as well as being widely available online. Based on the success of the Nigeria program, Chelsea is currently working on similar programs in Senegal and Morocco. Chelsea is a passionate advocate and prolific blogger who holds an MA (with distinction) in Education, Health Promotion and International Development from the Institute of Education in London, a BA in Religion and Human Rights from Columbia University in New York and studied Sexuality, Culture and Society at the University of Amsterdam.