Program Specialist
Chelsea Dickson is a program specialist for the Jewish Healthcare Foundation’s Aging Initiatives team. In her role, she supports the Teaching Nursing Home initiative, the Dementia Friends and Dementia Friendly Pennsylvania programs, as well as related aging, communications, and policy efforts. Before joining the Foundation, Dickson worked in both for-profit and nonprofit communications. As a communications manager at the social impact organization Understood, she helped promote free, expert-vetted information to individuals with learning disabilities, their families, teachers, and employers. At Bliss Integrated Communication, she supported communications efforts for a multinational tax, accounting, and consulting firm. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English and Professional Writing from Carnegie Mellon University and her MPH in Health Policy and Management from the University of Pittsburgh.