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 a simple but powerful belief: 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, community-based research, and movement-building practices, she develops frameworks, learning experiences, and community spaces that support both personal transformation and systemic change.

Chlo’e's work is deeply influenced by the wisdom of Black women, church mothers, cultural traditions, and freedom movements that have sustained communities across generations. 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 Creative Mentor to the DMV Youth Slam Team Coach and Youth Poet Laureates 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.

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.

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, Made for PAX Fellowship, and UVA’s Sorensen Institute for Political Emerging Leaders. She is also a certified healing-centered engagement practitioner, social emotional learning facilitator, master trauma and resilience trainer, racial equity facilitator, 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.