Chandra Donelson Is on a Mission to Make Data Make Sense — Starting with Kids

The year is 2020. The world had slowed to a crawl due to the pandemic. Chandra Donelson was balancing federal data leadership, grad school, and motherhood when her four-year-old son asked a question that changed everything: “What is data?”

That moment sparked the creation of “The Data Detective at the Carnival,” a groundbreaking children’s book that brings data to life for young minds and has since inspired a global literacy movement.