Chelsea Reil - Staff - Obama Presidency Oral History

Project Archivist

Chelsea Reil

Project Archivist for the Obama Presidency Oral History since 2022.

Chelsea Reil is a Project Archivist for the Oral History Archives at Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. She works on the Obama Presidency Oral History as well as the Jeffrey H. Brodsky Oral History Collection.

Before working at Columbia, she was Registrar at the New York Transit Museum, preserving the history of New York's public transit systems. She has also worked in the archives at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Democracy Now!, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños) at Hunter College, and Queens College. Chelsea holds an MLIS with a concentration in Archives from Queens College and a BA in Journalism and Spanish from Northeastern University.