Chandra Montgomery is an executive search consultant at Lindauer Global and a certified diversity, equity, and inclusion educator and speaker. Her background in philanthropy spans academic medicine, higher education, public media, and social services. She is an alumna of CASE’s Minority Advancement Institute and an Apra volunteer leader currently serving as chair of the Advocacy Committee. She is a founding member of the organization’s inaugural DEI Committee and founding co-chair of the Advancement DEI Task Force at the University of Southern California where she was the director of pipeline and prospect development for Health Sciences. Prior to USC, she led prospect development teams at National Public Radio and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Chandra holds a BA from Hampton University and is pursuing a master’s degree at USC’s Gould School of Law.