Chandler has a bachelor’s degree in Global Politics from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and is a Coverdell fellow and Development Practice master’s candidate at the University of Arizona. He has worked in development both in Southeast Asia with the U.S. Peace Corps and in Uganda as the Director of Communication Management for an education NGO. Employed as a Coverdell assistant with IRMA, Chandler also works as a refugee mobility researcher at the University of Arizona.
Chandler has experience in program development and implementation, mixed-method research, corporate and nonprofit communications, and workshop facilitation. His main areas of interest are climate adaptation, natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, climate migration, and rural education.
Chandler is fluent in English and has a working knowledge of Thai and Lao.
