Chantal Kai-Lewis is the Director of Supplier Diversity for the Maryland Department of General Services (DGS), Office of State Procurement. She leads statewide efforts to expand contracting opportunities for small, minority-, women-, and veteran-owned businesses while advancing equitable and inclusive procurement practices across Maryland government.
Prior to DGS, Chantal served as Director of the Office of Small and Minority Business Policy at the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT), where she managed Maryland’s Statewide Disparity Study. She also spent nearly seven years with the Governor’s Office of Small, Minority and Women Business Affairs, helping develop policies and best practices to strengthen supplier diversity and Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) program implementation.

Chantal holds a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a J.D. from Florida Coastal School of Law.