Chandra Donelson

Chandra Donelson has served as the Deputy Chief Data Officer, G-2 at Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA) since 2021. G-2 is the Army’s intelligence and security command, responsible for providing current and estimative intelligence, threat environment assessments, and foreign technical threat intelligence to HQDA and other Army organizations.

Donelson previously served as an OSINT Data Manager for the G2, where she led HQDA G-2 and Defense Intelligence Mission Area (DIMA) Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) portfolio modernization efforts. She earlier served as a Data and Analytics Officer in the U.S. Air Force Reserve.

Donelson is the DMV Chapter Lead for Women in Data.  She earned her MBA, Information Technology from Texas A&M University and a Master of Science in Data Science & Analytics from Univ. of Missouri – Columbia.