Bay Area Council Staff

Chandra Alexandre Director of Development

Chandra Alexandre is Director of Development at the Bay Area Council, responsible for fund development strategies; facilitating and managing relationships with funders; handling research, writing, prospecting, pipeline development and reporting; and tracking and managing the foundation and corporate philanthropic giving as well as individual donor processes. She further works with the Strategic Development Committee of the Board of Directors to plan and effectuate strategic initiatives.

Chandra also actively collaborates with the Director of Membership to promote and effectively market BAC (inclusive of the Bay Area Council Foundation) and handles fund development for the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, the research arm of the Bay Area Council.

Previously, Chandra was Director of Operations & Development for KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy, a public charter middle school dedicated to helping underserved youth attain a college education. At KIPP, she met funding goals while helping to initiate technology, organic gardening and girls’ empowerment programs.

Prior to her work at KIPP, Chandra was Senior Manager, Corporate Development at Knowledge Learning Corporation, the nation’s largest provider of child development services. In her earlier career, she served as Special Assistant for the Department of State at the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland under the Ambassador and US Representative to the IUCN-World Conservation Union.

Chandra grew up in New York City and graduated from Columbia with an A.B. degree in psychology and philosophy. She holds an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio School of Management, an additional Master’s, and a doctorate in Asian & Comparative Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is fluent in French and a dedicated Sanskritist.