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Chlo'e is no stranger to the way in which systems impact and interact with people. Edwards specializes in all that she has gone through, which drives her ability to view the world and her work through a multilayered lens.
She has directly been impacted by Virginia's foster care system through kinship care. Once served by a court appointe
Chlo'e is no stranger to the way in which systems impact and interact with people. Edwards specializes in all that she has gone through, which drives her ability to view the world and her work through a multilayered lens.
She has directly been impacted by Virginia's foster care system through kinship care. Once served by a court appointed special advocate, she became a court appointed special advocate. As a child, she witnessed the cycle of substance use and criminalization and as a result, served on the Henrico Too Smart 2 Start board to combat youth substance use through health and wellness.
In her adulthood, Edwards began counseling to pursue her journey of healing, and is a survivor of PTSD and childhood trauma, which led her to her work on the Campaign for a Trauma-Informed Virginia and founded the Racial Truth & Reconciliation Virginia Campaign.
Edwards roots as a Black woman inspired her journey to activism and leading a local Black Lives Matter Chapter. She believes in the need to advocate for an equitable and just society for all.
Change work starts internally and externally across a variety of disciplines:
Self-Healing & Personal Development: It is a journey of self-healing for the person embracing change. It encourages individuals to lean into their learning zones instead of comfort zones to embrace knowledge growth and the broadening of perspectives.
Community
Change work starts internally and externally across a variety of disciplines:
Self-Healing & Personal Development: It is a journey of self-healing for the person embracing change. It encourages individuals to lean into their learning zones instead of comfort zones to embrace knowledge growth and the broadening of perspectives.
Community Healing & Collective Care: For communities, as members we are collectively challenged to examine the way in which we influence others to embrace social change.
For Organizations: It it most effective when organizations pursue change internally, and following, externally.
Excellence & Accountability: Collectively: People, institutions, and public systems must hold each other accountable in practicing what is preached externally. We must require excellence in all that we do on behalf of those we impact.
Chlo'e focuses on making the maximum positive effort to mutually empower the community.
Her embraces social and systems change through an intersectional approach. She believes everyone has a role to play in contributing to change.
Chloe's strategies are rooted in research-based concepts and theories, such as:
Youth & Community Engagement:
Chlo'e focuses on making the maximum positive effort to mutually empower the community.
Her embraces social and systems change through an intersectional approach. She believes everyone has a role to play in contributing to change.
Chloe's strategies are rooted in research-based concepts and theories, such as:
Youth & Community Engagement: community events, including focus groups/listening sessions, town halls, learning tours, teach-ins, sit-ins, advocacy & activism trainings & resources, and other engagement projects.
Healing-Centered Engagement: creative strategies, including art & activism, healing-centered practices, mindfulness and meditation, social-emotional based yoga instruction; truth telling, trauma-informed care, and social emotional learning facilitation.
Social & Systems Change: research, policy, and data analysis, reconciliation & reparations, advocacy & activism,
Chlo'e Edwards believes equity, justice, diversity, inclusion, and belonging should work in tandem so that all have the innate ability to truly be equal be eliminating barriers to inequality.
Chlo'e Edwards completed a Community Partner in Residence Fellowship at the University of Richmond's Community and Civic Engagement Program to develop a multidisciplinary racial equity and social justice guide to policy development. She has completed a significant amount of training and research related to multidisciplinary concepts, theories, and critical thinking around the implementation of mitigative and transformative change to seek justice. She peels back the layers of history and the creation of privilege and oppression prior to delving into specific strategies and tactics for organizations, leaders, professionals, and community members to play in igniting change. Email Chlo'e using the action button.
Chlo'e Edwards is a racial equity facilitator with experience in engaging a variety of demographics, ranging from college students, non-profit professionals, community leaders, professional networks, and organizations in topics ranging from managing resistance, equity detours, organizational and individual change, and more. Edwards has the ability to translate practices rooted in diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice to practice and policy through practical and research-based strategies, including concept mapping, organizational and individual change theory, leadership theories, diversity, equity, inclusion models in addition to external strategies for implementation for frontline staff.
Edwards has engaged in a variety of workshops, ranging from the non-profit industrial complex and the white savior industrial complex; cultural, racial, & historical trauma; racial trauma & resilience; roots of privilege and oppression; equity detours & facing resistance; cultural adverse childhood experiences; and more. Email Chlo'e using the action button.
Chlo'e Edwards is a Mater Trauma and Resilience Trainer and often adds a twist to her trainings to include cultural adverse childhood experiences and concepts including racial, cultural, and historical trauma. Edwards delivers trainings ranging from racial trauma and resilience where she examines historical and modern day implications, the individual impact of racial trauma where she examines stress disorders, including post traumatic slave syndrome, and trauma-informed policy and practice.
In addition, Edwards integrates healing-centered engagement (HCE)practices into community-engagement and provider trainings. HCE explores seeing community members as agents in the creation of their own well-being, self-care and healing for the provider, HCE is strengths based rather than deficits based and ask the question, "What's right with you?" It is a political approach that empowers community members in the creation of their own well-being. Email Chlo'e using the action button.
Chlo'e Edwards holds a Master of Public Policy and is a graduate of the Virginia Progressive Leadership Project, Minority Research, & Law Institute, Sorensen Institute for Political Emerging Leaders, and other programs. In addition, she has direct experience in a variety of programs, including AmeriCorps and grassroots forms of direction action, such as advocacy days and marches. Much of Edwards career has been youth and community-centered.
Edwards specializes in campaigns, coalition and network building, organizing and mobilization, and community engagement. In addition to her community-based experience, Edwards work is informed by strategies rooted in research ranging from community empowerment, healing-centered engagement, trauma-informed care, narrative change, truth telling, theories of change, and good trouble leadership. Edwards prepares individuals to ignite change in visionary and practical ways by adding more tools to the toolkit while embracing knowledge growth, critical thinking, and transformative change.
Edwards has a speciality in policy analysis across a variety of issues, including public health and social justice. She has experience in research and policy analysis to build political agendas to champion during session. Her background as as an activist and advocate influences a unique approach to the co-creation of policy solutions and community inclusion. Email Chlo'e using the action button.
Chlo'e Edwards holds a Bachelor in English with a double concentration in Creative Writing, Multicultural Literature, and a minor in Social Justice. She calls attention to social issues through intellectual blogging, creative writing, and poetry. Her writing is often influenced by her experiences as a Black woman and a survivor of childhood trauma and racial trauma. Edwards has highlighted topics ranging from CodeSwitching Explained to Why Black Children Have to Be Resilient. In addition to her radical blogging, she inspires artists to engage in the intersectionality of art and activism through legislative advocacy, to engage in community partnerships with educational and art entities that highlight truth and reconciliation, and to merge art and truth telling. Edwards also has a variety of expertise in engaging youth in creative expression through workshops. Email Chlo'e using the action button.
Chlo'e Edwards has a strong expertise in English, creative writing, public relations, communications, and writing, Edwards has written numerous speeches, press releases, blogs, policy and research briefs, and other products. Edwards is able to communicate materials in a variety of forms ranging from creative expression, motivational tones, and traditional forms. Examples can be found on the I AM SPEAKING page. Email Chlo'e using the action button.
Chlo'e Edwards has spoken at a variety of events and planned many, including conferences. She is able to feasibly adjust to a variety of audiences and has spoken at events ranging from marches, rallies, awards ceremonies, conference keynotes, presentations, and kickoffs. Areas of speciality range from Edwards' lived experiences of overcoming adversity, racial and social justice, trauma-informed care, equity, public health, and general topics relating to policy and progress. As a former AmeriCorps teacher, preschool teacher, and child welfare worker, Edwards is also able to engage young people creatively. Email Chlo'e using the action button.
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