Dr. Chelsea Marcho

Dr. Chelsea Marcho was a Senior Agriculture Research Advisor and the Deputy Lead of the Research Operations and Implementation at USAID in the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security. During her tenure at USAID, she played a pivotal role in shaping the Bureau’s research portfolio and was integral in coordinating the Research Community of Practice, engaging with the Interagency Working Group for Research, and drafting the 2022-2026 Global Food Security Research Strategy. Marcho also supported the work of the Scientific Citizenship Initiative at Harvard Medical school as Program Coordinator and Research Advisor. She was a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow. She earned a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a BA in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh Bradford.