Chandra Dawson is a Licensed Independent Social Worker and Certified Grief Informed Professional with over 20 years of social work practice. Throughout her professional career, she has served various marginalized populations. A large portion of her career has been spent designing, managing, and implementing programs designed to meet the multifaceted needs of the underserved. She has years of organizational experience providing crisis intervention, supervision, group facilitation, training, consultation, program/project management, and senior leadership to organizations. Those served include vulnerable populations such as gender-based violence survivors, homeless, economically marginalized, disability, HIV+, and other underserved groups.

Mrs. Dawson is also the founder of The MACRO Project, Inc., a social work consulting practice providing quality trauma-informed services to groups, organizations, and agencies representing various systems. Rooted in an intersectional equity framework, The MARCO Project is built upon the belief that trauma prevention and intervention require a focus on community and system-level functions and power imbalances.

Mrs. Dawson is deeply committed to promoting and facilitating healing strategies designed to address the intersecting issues of racial, gender, and economic oppression. She holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland.