Chlo’e Edwards – Chief Executive Officer and founder of Transformative Changes

Chlo’e Edwards is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Transformative Changes. She provides overall strategic and operational leadership to power the organization’s mission to challenge the status quo in the pursuit of justice and human liberation. With over a decade of experience, the epicenter of her career has been public service. She works to center the needs and aspirations of historically marginalized communities to shift power to people in the social justice movement space. After working across diverse industries at the local, state, and national level, including the Small Entrepreneur Enterprise Development Institute, AmeriCorps, Voices for Virginia’s Children, The Truth Telling Project, The Movement for Black Lives, and Breathing Space, she is an expert in intersectionality.

In community, she founded Virginia’s first-ever Racial Truth & Reconciliation Week, which was recognized by Governor Ralph Northam and evolved into the Racial Truth & Reconciliation Virginia Campaign in 2020 and helped lead efforts to recognize racism as a public health crisis, making the state the first state in the south in 2021. Chlo’e has been recognized as a Richmond History Maker by The Valentine, earned the  Virginia Association for the Education of Young Children’s Media Award, accepted the YWCA Outstanding Women Leadership Award, earned Style Weekly’s top 40 Under 40, and was featured as RVA Mic Share’s top 34 Black women trailblazers.

Chlo’e 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. She has participated in various leadership development programs, including the University of Richmond’s Bonner Center for Community Engagement Program, the Virginia Progressive Leadership Project, and the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Emerging Leaders Program.

She is the Policy Director at New Virginia Majority, Adjunct Faculty of General Education and Social Justice at Southern New Hampshire University, the DMV Youth Slam Team Coach and Youth Poet Laureate Advisor at Words, Beats, and Life, and is a certified yoga teacher, social emotional learning facilitator, and healing-centered engagement practitioner.

To connect with Chlo’e, email [email protected].