American politician

Kendra Anderson (born June 27, 1957) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Rhode Island Senate representing District 31 since January 5, 2021.

Career

Anderson is an ESOL teacher and the founder of Climate Action Rhode Island.

In 2019, Anderson, a progressive, announced that she would challenge longtime in*bent senator and judiciary committee chair Erin Lynch Prata in the Democratic primary. Lynch Prata declined to run for re-election, instead accepting an appointment to the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and Anderson won the primary and general election.

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