ABOUT HER

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Chlo’e Edwards is a visionary social entrepreneur, lobbyist, advocate, and healing-centered engagement practitioner dedicated to advancing equity, justice, and transformative leadership. As the Founder and CEO of Her Changes and Executive Director of Transformative Changes, a DMV-based nonprofit, she cultivates spaces where truth-telling, reconciliation, and healing fuel systemic change and empower historically marginalized communities.

With over a decade of experience in public policy, advocacy, and community organizing, Chlo’e approaches social change through an intersectional lens—championing issues at the crossroads of public health, education, civil rights, and community violence prevention. Her leadership was instrumental in launching Virginia’s first Racial Truth & Reconciliation Week, which earned statewide recognition and evolved into the Racial Truth & Reconciliation Virginia Campaign. This campaign led Virginia to become the first state in the South to officially declare racism a public health crisis in 2021.

Recognized as a Richmond History Maker by The Valentine and a recipient of numerous awards—including the YWCA Outstanding Women Leadership Award and Style Weekly’s Top 40 Under 40—Chlo’e is a respected voice in social justice, equity, and healing justice circles.

She holds a Master of Public Policy in Leadership from Liberty University and a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Social Justice from Hollins University. Her expertise is further deepened by participation in leadership programs at the University of Richmond, Virginia Progressive Leadership Project, and the University of Virginia.

Beyond her organizational leadership, Chlo’e nurtures emerging voices as the coach for the DMV Youth Slam Team and advisor to the Youth Poet Laureate Program, and shares her knowledge as an Adjunct Faculty member teaching General Education and Social Justice. She is also a certified social-emotional learning facilitator, wellness educator, DEI trainer, and proud mom to Leo, her therapy dog.