Chels Morgan, MFA, CSE is a Black & Dominican, AuDHD, and Queer educator and creative with a passion for curating inclusive and representative spaces in the arts. They work in multiple sectors as a writer, director, teaching artist, cultural competency specialist, and intimacy and movement choreographer. 

Their intimacy and cultural competency work has been featured at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop (Off-Broadway), the Old Globe Theatre, WACO Theater and internationally at Antipodes Theater, as well as on talented academic stages such as the University of Michigan, Pomona College, and Northwestern University, to name a few. Their intimacy coordination work for film and television has played at Tribeca Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) and on the AllBlk Streaming Platform (an AMC Network). 

Passionate about their ongoing education, Chels has received a BA in Media Arts Production with a specialization in Writing & Producing for Television from Emerson College, an MFA in Directing Fiction for Film & Television from Loyola Marymount University, is an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator (CSE), a Certified Holistic Sexuality Educator (CHSE), and has an additional certification by the ANTE UP! Virtual Freedom Professional Development School for Justice Workers in the history, implementation, and troubleshooting of various justice frameworks related to the sexuality field. 

Their writings on Intimacy and Cultural Competency can be read in the Journal of Consent Based Performance (JCBP) as well as in the Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook. Currently, Chels is proud to be an adjunct professor in the Intimacy Professionals for Theatre & Cinema (IPTC) certification program at DePaul University and is the Director of Accessibility and Inclusion at the Intimacy Professionals Education Collective (IPEC).