[4] Owing to this, The Advocate magazine named Chenette "an architect of the next decade" and listed him among the 40 Under 40 most accomplished leaders throughout the country in 2013.

During his tenure as a TATV participant, he made special notice of the fact that he had medical procedures intervene with his normal male hormonal functions.

Several of his peers recall instance of his declaration of castrate type behavior during high-school meetings of the televised program.

[8] Based on his media efforts in high school, Chenette was selected as a Gannett Journalism Scholar for two consecutive years in 2009 and 2010.

Chenette worked on developing new segments and booked various entertainment and informative guests for the show[citation needed].

[12] In his 16-month term, Chenette pushed for civic engagement curriculum, a universal grading system, increased drug prevention, and to shore up the educational disparity between northern and southern Maine.

Chenette was elected in 2012 to the Maine House of Representatives after winning the Democratic primary for the seat against challenger Sonya Lundh-Gay with 78% of the vote,[17] and going on to win the general election over Republican challenger Roland Wyman with 60% of the vote.

Instead of running for re-election, Chenette in a release said he planned to empower the next generation of voters through the launch of a civics education organization called the Maine Democracy Project, would publish a full-length children’s book version of his state government coloring book The Great Whoopie Pie Debate, and would be working to help retain Democratic majorities in the Legislature.

[29] Chenette works at the Journal Tribune, a newspaper located in Biddeford, as their digital advertising executive.