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Doing It My Way
This CEO and Founder Is Investing in Social Impact
After her father was shot by Chicago Police, Chloë Cheyenne launched COMMUNITYx to build networks of change-agents
Doing It My Way is a candid ZORA Q&A series with newsmakers and changemakers in our community who are charting their own paths with conviction and defying convention.
Chloë Cheyenne is just getting started. Fresh off the success of an inaugural summit and app launch in September, the CEO and founder of COMMUNITYx, a social impact tech startup, recently tied for a $250,000 first-place prize at the Forbes Under 30 Summit.
After learning of the police brutality her father endured in 1989, at the hands of Chicago police in a case of mistaken identity, Chloë decided to make a difference. Chloë, a former business development manager at Google, started COMMUNITYx in 2018.
“In a lot of ways, my dad’s tragedy was my childhood reality. My family and I had to watch him in pain every single day because he still has a bullet fragment launched in his spine that can never be taken out, or else he’d become a paraplegic,” she says. “When I was old enough to finally understand what happened, I decided I needed to use my education and my experience to do…
