Cheselyn is a New Jersey girl with NYC at her core. She spent 20 years in Chicago where she lived and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 2006, Cheselyn moved to Davis in Northern California for fifteen years until moving to San Rafael outside of San Francisco in 2021. Cheselyn has taught at American River and Sierra Community Colleges as well as AiCASAC and CCA. She earned her BA in studio art and comparative religious studies at Brown University, an MFA in drawing, painting and new genres at Tyler School of Art of Temple University, and an MTS at GTU/PSR in Berkeley in Interfaith Chaplaincy and Justice & Social Transformation. Cheselyn is currently serving as Spiritual Support Counselor/Clinical Team Manager at By The Bay Health. Her work is exhibited nationally and has been included in exhibitions at the Jewish Museum in NYC, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, and Spertus Institute of Judaica in Chicago with works in the permanent collections.