Kendra Anderson

Kendra Anderson is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Rhode Island Senate for the 31st district from 2021 to 2023.

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 incumbent 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.
In the 2024 [United States presidential election|2024 presidential election], Anderson endorsed author Marianne Williamson's Marianne Williamson [2024 presidential campaign|presidential bid].