Chloe Cole-Wilson
Program HostChloe Cole-Wilson is the host of the monthly WDIY program Restoring Petals. She is a public health professional, cultural worker, and community advocate from the Lehigh Valley, now based in Boston, MA.
Chloe's work lives at the intersection of public health, justice, and creative expression, where she builds programs that center care, softness, and truth‑telling. She is the Founding Executive Director of Basement Poetry, an arts collective dedicated to amplifying BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices through performance, poetry, and radical storytelling. For more than a decade, Chloe has developed and led initiatives that support community wellness—whether through HIV prevention work, youth empowerment, or cultivating spaces for emerging artists to grow.
Her leadership is rooted in the belief that art is a form of resistance, that healing is necessary, and that every community deserves space to imagine and create joyfully. She will be receiving her Master’s in Psychology from the University of Phoenix, further deepening her commitment to community care and mental health.
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Chloe Cole-Wilson sits down with Chanaly Rodriguez, a poet and spoken word artist from Allentown, to explore how artists are reconnecting in the years after the pandemic.
