Interview with Congressional Candidate Alexandra Chandler

In this episode, Arianna and Gabrielle interview 3rd district congressional candidate Alexandra Chandler. Over her career, she's worked to keep the country safe, working in naval intelligence, including protecting the USA from weapons of mass destruction. Alexandra is the first transgender woman running for the 3rd district. A little over a decade ago, while working in military intelligence, she made the decision to live openly as a woman. 

While in law school, Alexandra and her wife Catherine lived in New York City. During the 9/11 attacks Catherine was on a subway train under lower Manhattan when the towers fell. Alexandra spent hours not knowing if she survived.

That day, Alexandra made the decision to join the intelligence community, where she served for 12 years in Naval Intelligence preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction from countries like North Korea and Iran and targeting arms smuggling to war zones and terrorist groups. 

She is now running against a field of over 10 competitors to fill Niki Tsongas' congressional seat, who is retiring. The discussion covers topics such as renewable energy, college affordability, money in politics, cyber security, the midterm elections, and even Lord of the Rings and Shakespeare.