ABOUT HER

Chlo’e I. Edwards is a healing-centered strategist, movement builder, educator, and cultural practitioner working at the intersection of faith, community, leadership, and systems change. Her work is rooted in the belief that lasting transformation requires both changing systems and nurturing the people who live within them.

She is the Founder and CEO of Her Changes, a healing-centered institute dedicated to advancing collective flourishing through leadership development, spiritual formation, culture, storytelling, policy, and systems transformation. She also serves as the Founder and Co-Executive Director of Transformative Changes, where she helps design and implement healing justice approaches that strengthen individuals, communities, organizations, and movements.

For more than a decade, Chlo’e has worked across policy, advocacy, education, public health, youth development, and community organizing. Her leadership has contributed to statewide efforts advancing racial equity, community healing, violence prevention, restorative practices, civic engagement, and public policy reform. She is the architect of Virginia’s first Racial Truth & Reconciliation Week, which was later recognized by Governor Ralph Northam and helped lead efforts that contributed to Virginia becoming the first Southern state to declare racism a public health crisis. In 2026, she worked on a law to codify the use of restorative justice in Virginia's schools before resorting to the use of suspension, expulsion, or exclusionary attendance. This was a strong first step towards dismantling the school to prison pipeline. 

Today, her work increasingly focuses on helping leaders, organizations, and communities move beyond crisis response and toward cultures of healing, sustainability, belonging, and collective care. Drawing from healing justice, Black faith traditions, womanist thought, and movement-building practices, she develops frameworks, learning experiences, and community spaces that support both personal transformation and systemic change.

Whether facilitating leadership retreats, designing policy strategies, teaching, writing, coaching, or building community, she is committed to cultivating the conditions where people can heal, lead, flourish, and contribute to something larger than themselves.

Chlo’e holds key roles shaping the next generation: Policy Director at New Virginia Majority and Poetry Program Manager at Words, Beats, and Life, where her mentorship transforms young poets into fearless “artivists,” using storytelling as a radical tool for healing and social change.

Across Virginia, she has been recognized as a Richmond History Maker by The Valentine, received the YWCA Outstanding Women Leadership Award, the Virginia AEYC Media Award, and has been named among Style Weekly's Top 40 Under 40 and RVA Mic Share's Top Black Women Trailblazers.

Nationally, she has been recognized as the 2026 Diana Onley-Campbell Movement Builder of the Year by the National Youth Justice Network and the 2026 Dreamers and Disrupters Advocate of the Year by the Global Black Lives Matter Foundation. 

Chlo’e holds a Master of Public Policy in Leadership from Liberty University and a B.A. in English with a Social Justice minor from Hollins University. She is also an alumna of elite civic leadership programs including the University of Richmond Bonner Center, the Virginia Progressive Leadership Project, Rockwood's Black & Latino Changemakers Fellowship, Global Made for PAX Fellowship, and UVA’s Sorensen Institute for Political Emerging Leaders. Most recently, she has completed Apostle John Eckhardt's Master the Prophetic Certification Program at Impact University. 

She is also a certified restorative justice and healing-centered engagement practitioner, racial equity and social emotional learning facilitator, master trauma and resilience trainer, poet, and public speaker.

At the center of her work is a commitment to helping people move from survival toward healing, purpose, belonging, and collective flourishing while building communities, institutions, and systems capable of sustaining that transformation for generations to come.