Chandler Vaughan

Chandler Vaughan is the Associate Director in the Virginia Office of Broadband. Before joining the Office of Broadband, Chandler worked for a local government to assist with rural broadband planning efforts. In the Office of Broadband, Chandler leads development under plans and programs for the $1.5 billion investment in both deployment and non-deployment broadband programs under the BEAD Program. Even before BEAD, Chandler played a key role in scaling a $50 million dollar broadband expansion program to accommodate a $700 million investment of American Rescue Plan Act funding in 2021. During his time in the Virginia Broadband Office, over 150,000 homes and business have received broadband access through network construction, with tens of thousands more homes included in projects that are already underway.