Chandra Montgomery Nicol is the Executive Director of Clonlara.   Her association with Clonlara has been life-long.   She was a student here, an office assistant during her high school and college years, and the Accounts Manager in 1987-91.

At The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Chandra earned a Bachelor's Degree in Literature, Science and the Arts in 1987, and a Master's Degree in Natural Resources in 1991.   She has worked in a law firm, two libraries, the sales department for a Holiday Inn convention center and has run her own marketing business.

Chandra married and left Ann Arbor in 1991 and lived in England and Longmont, Colorado before returning home with her family.   She kept close ties with Clonlara throughout her time away.   Chandra worked online representing Clonlara from 1994 until 2001, and she home educated her oldest before enrolling him in Clonlara's campus school.   Both her two boys currently attend the campus school; they are a second generation family here at Clonlara, now one of many such loyal Clonlara families.