Chelsey Roebuck is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Emerging Leaders in Technology and Engineering, Inc. (ELiTE). ELiTE is a community-based youth development organization that utilizes STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education to empower students from underserved communities to realize their academic and career potential. ELiTE currently facilitates intensive programs to provide hands-on learning in computer science and engineering for students from underrepresented populations in New York City and Ghana, West Africa. 

Owed to the quality of ELiTE’s programs, organizations such as Google, Meta, and the New York City Department of Education have continued partnerships with ELiTE to develop and facilitate programs in computer science and engineering. Over 12,000 students globally have been impacted by such programs. ELiTE’s recent alumni have matriculated to the most competitive engineering schools in the United States including multiple students to MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, Brown, Cornell, and UPenn over the past three years.

In addition to his work with ELiTE, Chelsey also served as a co-founder and advisor for Vectorly (recently acquired by Hopin), an ultra-data-light video compression company to increase access to online educational resources in emerging markets. 

Since graduating with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University in 2010, Chelsey has worked tirelessly to engineer opportunity and create meaningful impact towards addressing STEM education inequality as a means to close the achievement gap and provide opportunities for economic mobility for thousands of youth across Africa and the Americas. Among Chelsey’s numerous awards and recognitions include being named by Forbes Magazine as one of ‘30 Under 30 in Education’ in 2016, a prestigious Echoing Green Fellowship in 2013, and being honored alongside President Barack Obama as the recipient of the Evelyn Kamen Rising Star Award from FIRST Robotics in 2017. Chelsey is also a Speaking Ambassador for the US Department of State and serves on the Board of Directors or Advisory Board for a number of social impact organizations including Global Code (UK), Vectorly (USA), Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Alumni Association (USA), Independent School Teaching Fellowship (USA), and NYC STEM Education (USA).