Chloé Valdary
{{short description|American writer and entrepreneur}}
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| known_for = Social commentary; founding Theory of Enchantment
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Chloé Simone Valdary is an American writer and entrepreneur whose company, Theory of Enchantment, teaches social and emotional learning in schools, as well as diversity and inclusion in companies and government agencies.{{Cite web|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/back-into-the-fold-an-interview-with-chloe-valdary/|title=Back into the Fold: An Interview with Chloé Valdary|last=Valdary|first=Otis Houston interviews Chloé|website=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=12 December 2019|access-date=2020-02-12}}
Early life and education
Valdary grew up in New Orleans, in a family that belonged to the Seventh-Day Sabbatarian Christian Intercontinental Church of God.{{cite news|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/back-into-the-fold-an-interview-with-chloe-valdary/|title=Back into the Fold: An interview with Chloé Valdary|date=12 December 2019|work=LA Review of Books|access-date=12 February 2020}} In 2015, Valdary graduated magna cum laude from the University of New Orleans, earning a BA in international studies.{{cite news |date=May 21, 2015 |title=UNO to award degrees to more than 900 students at Friday commencement |url=http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2015/05/uno_2015_graduation_list.html |first=Jed |last=Lipinski |work=The Times-Picayune |access-date=June 3, 2018 }}
Career
Valdary founded a pro-Israel student group, Allies of Israel, while a student at the University of New Orleans.{{cite web|title=Chloé Valdary|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/chloe-valdary.html|publisher=The Daily Beast|access-date=28 October 2014}}{{cite news|title=Non-Jewish New Orleans University Sophomore Creates "Allies for Israel"|url=http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/02/01/non-jewish-new-orleans-university-sophomore-creates-%E2%80%9Callies-for-israel-video/|access-date=28 October 2014|work=The Algemeiner|date=1 February 2013}}{{cite news|last1=Marcus|first1=Lori Levanthal|title=African-American student starts Pro-Israel Group in New Orleans|url=http://www.jewishpress.com/news/african-american-pro-israel-group-on-new-orleans-campus-fighting-antisemitism/2013/01/14/|access-date=28 October 2014|publisher=The Jewish Press|date=14 January 2013}} Over the years, she has participated in debates where she represented a Zionist perspective.{{cn|date=October 2023}}
Before 2015, she served as a Robert L. Bartley Fellow and Tikvah fellow under journalist and political commentator Bret Stephens at The Wall Street Journal.{{cite web |url=http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2015/08/18/watch-documentary-on-campus-anti-semitism-draws-big-crowd-near-chicago/ |title=Documentary on Campus Anti-Semitism Draws Big Crowd Near Chicago |author=JNS |date=August 18, 2015 |work=Jewish Business News |access-date=November 14, 2015 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/happiness-and-the-pursuit-leadership/201911/chlo-valdary-disagrees|title=Chloé Valdary Disagrees|first=Palema|last=Paresky|publisher=Psychology Today|date=2019-11-09|access-date=2020-07-21}} In addition to The Wall Street Journal,{{Cite web|last=Valdary|first=Chloé|date=July 29, 2015|title=An Unwelcome Palestinian Reformer|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-unwelcome-palestinian-reformer-1438210446|website=Wall Street Journal}} Valdary has written articles for The New York Times{{Cite news|last=Valdary|first=Chloé|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/opinion/avoiding-white-people-charlottesville-racism.html|title=Opinion {{!}} Why I Refuse to Avoid White People|date=2017-08-22|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-02-12|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} and The Atlantic magazine.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/coates-trump/541158/|title=There's No Single Explanation for Trump's Election|last=Valdary|first=Chloé|date=2017-09-28|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-12}}
Valdary has also criticized critical race theory, asserting that it fails to truly capture human complexity and oversimplifies reality.
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