Chelsea Chandler was the director of the Academy's Environmental Initiatives from 2016 to 2020. She led the Climate & Energy and Waters of Wisconsin Initiatives, to which she brought her interdisciplinary experience and passion for researching and communicating solutions to environmental challenges. Prior to joining the Academy in August 2016, Chandler worked for a number of other environmental non-profits. As a scientist in the Stockholm Environment Institute’s Climate and Energy group, she developed tools for tracking progress toward local sustainability goals, modeled energy and emissions reductions in various sectors, and presented at international training workshops on climate change mitigation. She studied climate change adaptation through water resource management in the Andes while at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Most recently, as a project manager at Green Seal, she reviewed environmentally preferable products to determine compliance with the organization’s certification criteria. Chandler has a MEM in Global Change Science and Policy from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and a BA in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
