Andrea Chandler

Andrea Chandler is an American farmer, writer, and retired sailor. After enlisting in the United States Navy in 1998, Chandler worked as a guided missile specialist on various destroyers, serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, for which she was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal. Retiring in 2008, she worked on missile systems at a defense contractor before switching to small-scale agriculture, her interest spurred by 4 chickens she had been given as a wedding gift.

As a farmer and science communicator, Chandler has worked with The Livestock Conservancy and been covered in The Independent and The Piedmont Virginian. As a Navy veteran and commentator on veterans' issues, she has been published or quoted in AlterNet, Quartz, and XoJane.