Chandra Anderson is the Program Coordinator for Community and Leadership Development in the Native American Program. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, she moved to Vermont at a young age and considers herself an Alaskan-Vermonter. Recently, she has circled back to the Upper Valley, previously living, and working in Alaska, New Hampshire, and Montana.
Chandra graduated from Vermont Law School in 2013 with a master's degree in environmental law & Policy. Her expertise focused on natural resources law, land management, climate change, and tribal & federal indian law. In 2013, she returned to Alaska and interned for the State's DNR in land management specializing in ANCSA and ANILCA. In 2017 she left for Montana, working as a professional in the fly-fishing and ski industries. While living out west, she gravitated back to indigenous communities focusing on a passion project she created for protecting indigenous natural resources through advocacy and policy work.
Prior to joining the NAP in 2022, Chandra worked at Vermont Law School for 3 years as a Program Coordinator in the Office of Careers Services. Currently, she is working toward her Doctorate in Education with a concentration in Higher Education Policy and Leadership. Her research focus is on native and indigenous student retention and academic success in higher education.
Chandra is pleased to be part of the Native American Program managing the signature community and leadership development programming along with the small-scale and large-scale events for the native and indigenous community. When she is not at work you can find her either on a river fly fishing, hiking the Whites or the Mahoosuc range, or skinning up to ski down a big mountain. As well as owning and operating a fly-fishing guiding service in Vermont, she is a former mountain bike instructor and is a current PSIA-certified alpine and telemark ski instructor/ ski school supervisor.