About Chelsea
Chelsea Bonini was sworn into office in December of 2020 to serve as the San Mateo County Board of Education’s Area 4 Trustee following a term on the San Mateo-Foster City School District Board of Trustees (2013-2017) and her service to the San Mateo County Office of Education as a Personnel Commissioner (2018-2020).
Chelsea is a member of the Board’s Legislative subcommittee, and she serves as the County Board’s representative on the San Mateo County School Boards Association’s Executive Board.
Chelsea also currently sits on the San Mateo County Commission on Disabilities (where she chairs the Youth and Family Committee) and the San Mateo County Mental Health and Substance Abuse Recovery Commission (MHSARC).
Chelsea is a passionate advocate for education, housing, mental health awareness, disability rights and inclusive communities. The pillars of Trustee Bonini's work are #Opportunity #Inclusion and #Accountability, and her dedication to raising awareness of and eradicating the longstanding impacts of oppression of marginalized communities in our schools and communities define her work.
She is a proud alumna of Russell Sage College, graduating Magna Cum Laude and holding a dual B.S. in Elementary Education and Psychology, as well as U.C. Hastings College of Law, where she was elected to serve as Editor in Chief of her law journal and had the honor of serving in two judicial externship positions, one at the U.S. District Court and the other at the California Court of Appeals.
Chelsea is a former kindergarten and first grade teacher in South San Francisco Unified School District and has been practicing law for over 20 years.
As the current Executive Director of Not Without Us and Founder of the California Education Association, both nonprofits, Trustee Bonini is dedicated to raising awareness and changing policies & practices locally and statewide to ensure that all children have equitable opportunities be successful in school and in life.
Chelsea lives in San Mateo with her husband Matt and their two teenage boys.
Chelsea is a member of the Board’s Legislative subcommittee, and she serves as the County Board’s representative on the San Mateo County School Boards Association’s Executive Board.
Chelsea also currently sits on the San Mateo County Commission on Disabilities (where she chairs the Youth and Family Committee) and the San Mateo County Mental Health and Substance Abuse Recovery Commission (MHSARC).
Chelsea is a passionate advocate for education, housing, mental health awareness, disability rights and inclusive communities. The pillars of Trustee Bonini's work are #Opportunity #Inclusion and #Accountability, and her dedication to raising awareness of and eradicating the longstanding impacts of oppression of marginalized communities in our schools and communities define her work.
She is a proud alumna of Russell Sage College, graduating Magna Cum Laude and holding a dual B.S. in Elementary Education and Psychology, as well as U.C. Hastings College of Law, where she was elected to serve as Editor in Chief of her law journal and had the honor of serving in two judicial externship positions, one at the U.S. District Court and the other at the California Court of Appeals.
Chelsea is a former kindergarten and first grade teacher in South San Francisco Unified School District and has been practicing law for over 20 years.
As the current Executive Director of Not Without Us and Founder of the California Education Association, both nonprofits, Trustee Bonini is dedicated to raising awareness and changing policies & practices locally and statewide to ensure that all children have equitable opportunities be successful in school and in life.
Chelsea lives in San Mateo with her husband Matt and their two teenage boys.
