Chelsey Luger

Author & Wellness Advocate

Chelsey Luger is an author and wellness advocate who aims to reclaim healthy ways of life in Indigenous communities.

Luger is Anishinaabe, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa (maternal) and Sans Arc and Hunkpapa Lakota from Cheyenne River and Standing Rock (paternal). She was born and raised in North Dakota and now resides in O’odham Jeved (Arizona) with her husband, Thosh Collins, and their children, who are citizens of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.

Luger has written for the Atlantic, Self Magazine, the Huffington Post, Well + Good, Indian Country Today and more. She is a former VJ (on-air talent), script writer, and producer for NowThis News.

She is a trainer/facilitator for the Native Wellness Institute and is the cofounder of Well For Culture,  an Indigenous wellness initiative. Luger has worked as talent, cultural consultant, producer, content creator, and copywriter for brands such as Nike, Faherty, Athleta, On Running and REI.

Luger & Collins are the authors of The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well, now available everywhere books are sold. Her forthcoming non-fiction title, Sacred Space: Transformative Wellbeing through Indigenous Home Teachings, will be published by Harper One in 2025. They are represented by Sterling Lord Literistic.
 

B.A. History & Native American Studies, Dartmouth College '10

M.A. Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism '13

Certificate in Indigenous Public Health, Turtle Mountain Community College ‘23