https://www.chelseasaidso.org/about daily 0.75 2025-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1559230516943-UP7K1BZZ2WY6LJ15IF9V/shutterstock_753356872.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/9dc2bf3a-185c-44a7-a2ed-eb04c28e9d3a/ChelseaRicker-Headshots-60.jpg About - Meet Chelsea. Chelsea L. Ricker is a lifelong sexual and reproductive rights activist whose work focuses on amplifying and integrating the voices of women, young people, LGBTQI+ groups, and local communities into programs, policy, and research spaces. Chelsea is an expert in access to and quality of sexual and reproductive health services, comprehensive sexuality education, sexual and gender-based violence prevention and response, and international human rights structures. Currently based in London, she has worked with local groups across the world as well as with international agencies and organizations, and lived in the US, Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Chelsea works globally and locally to advance sexual rights and social justice. In her communities, Chelsea has volunteered with the Washington National Opera; served as coordinator for Repro Health Happy Hour, a networking event for professionals working in the repro justice space; plays on the Raiders, London’s largest LGBTQIA+ sports club; provided counseling services for local sexual assault and rape crisis support centers; and is a proud former board member for HIPS, a community-led organization providing one-stop, holistic, inclusive services and support for sex workers, drug users, and people living in street economies in Washington DC. Chelsea’s CV ➝ Support HIPS ➝ https://www.chelseasaidso.org/services daily 0.75 2020-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1559280160541-VNN3P7VLRX9FJ776HPQ4/IMG_2087.jpg Services https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1559280148261-XRA7DSVJ5MHSVIGY7GY9/11313090_10101861529012732_6764523643379115370_o.jpg Services https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1559280094603-91WQPA6IORBOU1HKDYQL/IWHC+Workshop+.jpeg Services https://www.chelseasaidso.org/home-stella daily 1.0 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59284562a5790a6b9072d0bc/1510776314443-MFGGEGJ58OZT30LH7KUC/color-4.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1559191037868-GLGHCI54NVE2MWQ4LO6K/shutterstock_753356872.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59284562a5790a6b9072d0bc/1510776292321-GA4G8K03FPM7OYNL51GP/color-4.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1559280424920-GOU1KCKB4C43M0YTUNV7/IMG_3839.JPG Home - Global experience, s hared solutions. Chelsea has developed games, learning, and skills-building tools and strategies for a who’s who list of human rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights organizations. See Chelsea’s work ➝ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1559192084060-LKEFIV4CNIP80823FW3W/faces-on-yellow.jpg Home - Custom services to fit your needs. Chelsea provides strategic research and advice, instructional design, and training services for feminist, human rights, and sexual and reproductive rights organizations and networks. Her work is grounded in participatory, collaborative methodologies, intersectional feminist analysis, and an inclusive social justice perspective. Learn more ➝ https://www.chelseasaidso.org/introduction daily 0.75 2017-11-17 https://www.chelseasaidso.org/contact daily 0.75 2024-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1559358900865-1XW0SMQE0ZX4K9F1P13L/Chelsea_SaidSo-logo_600w.jpg Contact https://www.chelseasaidso.org/portfolio2 daily 0.75 2020-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609097826079-IRFGN5S4DEJI8XSSR01E/Screenshot+2020-12-27+at+14.21.54.png Portfolio OLD - Elevating Voice and Agency In this series, Chelsea and her colleagues define an explicitly feminist approach to policy and programming to reach adolescent girls. Commissioned by and in collaboration with Plan International UK, the series includes a global review and youth-led peer research reports from Malawi and Zimbabwe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609098447909-P00LRWFYQ26YPSVWOUKO/Screenshot+2020-12-27+at+14.25.17.png Portfolio OLD - Sharing Learning with Games Pragati is a social and behavioral intervention comprised of nine games implemented in five districts of Nepal. The games Chelsea designed sparked challenging conversations in communities around fertility and family planning, side-effects of family planning methods, and social norms that drive birth timing and family size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609098932575-H6MLNB9S4EW7I7YOQ9O0/My+Body+My+Rights.png Portfolio OLD - Training Young Activists One of many training and educational programs Chelsea has designed for youth advocates interested in acting at local, national, or global levels to advance sexual and reproductive rights, the Respect My Rights, Respect My Dignity Module is grounded in human rights education and feminist training principles. It is designed to be used by and with young people and youth activists as they support their peers through individual and collective journeys of reflection, critical analysis and action. This includes having the knowledge and skills to engage in difficult conversations on a taboo subject and to stand up for sexual and reproductive rights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609099289528-HPC55J1XE0HZ9RA6O214/Screenshot+2020-12-27+at+14.28.13.png Portfolio OLD - Measuring and Defining Inclusion As part of YouthPower Learning’s series on positive youth development programs, this technical brief offers clear standards integrated social inclusion practices. Chelsea and Juanita Adames explore what it takes to define, program for, and measure inclusion, starting from a dissection of power and safety concerns for young people from excluded and marginalized communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609100283397-430GX6N4319CL38UN2G1/Screenshot+2020-12-27+at+14.19.36.png Portfolio OLD - Mapping Global Advocacy As the global policy landscape shifts in response to COVID19 and new landmarks on gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights, this tool provides a guide for young advocates working to advance comprehensive sexuality education policy, implementation, and accountability structures. Chelsea provides evidence and arguments for CSE from different sectors and offers advice to young advocates who are interested in pushing for increased investments in and favorable policy environments for CSE at the global level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609100704680-WM8D8XFL6XJNNY7CGVUJ/zrhm21.v028.i02.cover.jpg Portfolio OLD - Power and Agency in Universal Health Coverage In this SRHM Journal Commentary, Chelsea and collaborator Bekky Ashmore explore the need for Universal Health Coverage agenda to fully understand and address the influences of economic inequality, violence, and discrimination on girls’ power and agency in order to improve their access to health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609098272480-CDW1UAFVD3KQ8FK1LL4W/Body+Politics+cover.png Portfolio OLD - Training in Rights and Sexuality Chelsea developed this Training Manual as one component of Amnesty International’s Body Politics: Criminalization of Sexuality and Reproduction series. It aims to motivate and equip the organization’s global movement to challenge unjust criminalization of sexuality and reproduction in local, national, regional and international contexts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609098595868-3MFMGBVRY21PY277Z1K0/Screenshot+2020-12-27+at+14.18.01.png Portfolio OLD - Financing Gender Equality In collaboration with GreeneWorks, Chelsea worked to define a vision and roadmap for integrated gender equality results within global reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health funding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609099098148-WH3CY7SQXKZNWCQC9Q7U/OHA+IPV+addendum+cover.png Portfolio OLD - Adding Rights to Job Aids The risk or fear of violence can severely impact women’s, and in particular young women’s, willingness to disclose their HIV status to their partners. In this tool for service providers, Chelsea integrates intimate partner and sexual violence screening into HIV testing and partner notification services for adolescent girls, with a focus on rights-based, youth friendly quality of care. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609100081230-0TX1FHZH8LTTRRCO785T/time_to_act_-_cover.jpg Portfolio OLD - Identifying Best Practices In collaboration with GreeneWorks and young researchers in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, Chelsea presents a review of promising and innovative program approaches to prevent and respond to child, early and forced marriage in the Asia region. The research elevates the voices of adolescent girls and youth advocates in the five countries to identify interventions and approaches that respond to girls needs and have the potential to be effective if scaled up in Asia and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609100561336-EBJS5YRL9LLAZULW3X40/sexual+coercion.png Portfolio OLD - Working with Young Survivors This technical brief is written for researchers and program implementers working with youth in developing countries, who likely interact with youth who have experienced sexual coercion. In the brief Chelsea highlights examples of successful programs for reducing the occurrence of sexual coercion and force and describes strategies for responding to them. She also discusses how the frequency and negative effects of sexual coercion experienced by boys and girls could be reduced by building assets, especially social skills, agency, and youth empowerment, as a part of positive youth development programs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609100881999-569P6K9WQ3HKZSOVU8ZJ/Youth+and+Abortion.png Portfolio OLD - Increasing Access to Abortion Services Written for member association of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, this tool provides support to organizations who are interested in scaling up their work on young people’s access to abortion and abortion-related services. It presents some ideas and strategies that have been tried before in order to help inspire and inform creative approaches for different contexts. https://www.chelseasaidso.org/portfolio daily 0.75 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/ac11da82-b00d-4d3e-9d4e-920690bca799/Screenshot+2022-12-27+at+14.19.35.png Portfolio - UNICEF Gender Policy and Action Plan As part of a long-term partnership with Collective Impact, Chelsea and her colleagues drove a year-long consultative process to develop and refine a new Gender Policy and Action Plan for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The new Gender Policy and Action Plan recognizes children and adolescents of all gender identities, gender expressions, sexual orientations, and sex characteristics as equals; and calls for a world that has eliminated and healed from the generational legacies of discrimination of all kinds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/d1779cc8-a49d-4045-99bd-c9eb53e53979/Screenshot+2023-10-04+at+13.46.06.png Portfolio - Pushing the Boundary See Chelsea present her initial research for this article in the video below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/cb4dfac2-32bf-465f-aac7-2b8346250bcf/Screenshot+2023-02-15+at+11.49.34.png Portfolio - Creating a More Inclusive World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/859ccac9-5396-451e-a773-36a0ae07c968/Screenshot+2023-10-04+at+13.53.25.png Portfolio - Building Shared Values https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/b551a0a9-0f14-4577-ba10-2adaf56fd0c1/Screenshot+2024-10-04+at+12.47.57.png Portfolio - Exploring What Works for Girls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/20628523-53fe-4b04-bc0d-01fc335f7ad0/Screenshot+2025-08-08+at+12.43.55.png Portfolio - Moving from Theory to Practice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/9b909547-febb-4310-9f58-ed224593d9a0/Screenshot+2024-10-04+at+12.54.24.png Portfolio - Promoting Self Reflection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/301d14ac-6874-4a65-a3e3-74c4ed26fe49/Screenshot+2024-10-04+at+13.01.47.png Portfolio - Exploring Gender, Power, and Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/06dc41c9-61f8-4784-b08c-646c27ba92ac/Screenshot+2022-12-27+at+14.18.51.png Portfolio - Aiding Young Activists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609741867454-8JZVHU78PNGG4RB2OOWY/YouthAbortion.jpg Portfolio - Increasing Access to Abortion Services https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609723316361-32N0BW11XJP0YM1VJIC0/BodyPolitics.jpg Portfolio - Training in Rights and Sexuality https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609721593837-BSY8DBZOJ451SFM44X5K/Power-To-Decide-Plan-International-UK-Executive-Summary-1.jpg Portfolio - Elevating Voice and Agency In this series, Chelsea and her colleagues define an explicitly feminist approach to policy and programming to reach adolescent girls. Commissioned by and in collaboration with Plan International UK, the series includes a global review and youth-led peer research reports from Malawi and Zimbabwe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/18df7aef-015c-4274-9ebd-0257a234a90e/Screenshot+2023-01-06+at+09.40.00.png Portfolio - Trainings for Crisis Settings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609722654622-J2BY76MXFCO7TK7YFKAB/Screenshot-2020-12-27-at-14.25.17.jpg Portfolio - Sharing Learning with Games Watch a short documentary about this project and its impact in the video below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609733220412-RB5274OYNEH0JZYWD5WN/GlobalFinancing.jpg Portfolio - Financing Gender Equality https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609739780142-W07J81LS9M7HLPPOFDW9/RespectMyRights.jpg Portfolio - Training Young Activists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609742803823-MBV7MX52FJHWG35L7064/WorkingWithYoungSurvivors.jpg Portfolio - Working with Young Survivors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609740574463-GOGJTMOCQK9PSK72DWRP/Time2Act.jpg Portfolio - Identifying Best Practices https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609733731470-DN1KTCMWTTUR16W9DNIM/PlanningAndConducting.jpg Portfolio - Adding Rights to Job Aids https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609742996340-BG5LOXWDZOFXWNRM8B2O/zrhm21.v028.i02.cover.jpg Portfolio - Promoting Power and Agency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609741246383-S4ZTWFR7WETCD6BHGCFE/SocialInclusion.jpg Portfolio - Measuring and Defining Inclusion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/1609741981424-5E2DP3GKJODLDSUGQY59/TogetherOnThePath.jpg Portfolio - Mapping Global Advocacy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd24cc0dbda368002081c9/e7573260-f2f8-40a6-8f7a-b635000aa27a/Screenshot+2022-12-27+at+14.17.42.png Portfolio - Training Service Providers