Brief Biography

She was born in Bethesda, Maryland on the coldest day of the year. The third of five children, her childhood was punctuated by family moves around the United States every two or three years, as her father – an officer in the Marine Corps – pursued his career. Only after his retirement from the military did she finally experience a “home town”, in Potsdam, New York, where she completed her high school years.

After graduating from high school, she attended art school at Rochester Institute of Technology for one year, and then transferred into the architecture program at Syracuse University, graduating with both a Bachelor of Arts (history of architecture) and a Bachelor of Architecture, following a senior year abroad at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, England. Later in life she completed masters degree studies in international affairs in the liberal studies program at Georgetown University, and later still doctoral studies in ethics and public policy at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy in College Park, Maryland.

In 1976, Chloe married in England and moved to Oregon, where her spouse Melanie completed landscape architecture studies. In 1979, they relocated to Nairobi, Kenya, in time jointly establishing an architectural, landscape architecture, and planning firm – Landplan Group Africa, with offices in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. After ten years and the dissolution of that marriage, Chloe relocated to London, England, and later to Washington, DC, where she remarried in 1993. Her wife is Christine Lucas. Their son Ian was born in 1995, and their daughter Audrey in 2000. While anchored in the metropolitan Washington DC area, Chloe and the family lived in Durban, South Africa from 1995-98, where Chloe served as managing director of Siyakhana Consulting Company, the South African branch of an international planning and architectural firm. They also spent one year in Kampala, Uganda (2005-06), where Chloe was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the ethics and public policy program, department of philosophy, faculty of arts, at Makerere University.

Chloe is a post-operative transsexual (see www.transsexual.org/What.html), and until 2008 she lived and worked as Stephen. While she experienced many incidents throughout her life that might have been seen as evidence of her transgender status, it was not until she was well into her middle age years that she began to address her gender identity disorder in a determined, focused manner. With the help of expert counseling, a loving wife and family, an understanding employer, and a deeply supportive Quaker community, Chloe’s transition is now completed.

Chloe's convictions as a very active member of the Adelphi Monthly Meeting of Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) shape her values and provide the foundation of her community. She presented a one-week course on ethics and Quakerism at the annual gathering of Quakers - the Friends General Conference - in the summers of 2008 and 2009, and - jointly with Dr. Petra Doan - will offer a similar course on gender at this summer's gathering.

Chloe has three decades experience as a development project manager and ethics advisor in developing countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, and especially Africa. In previous employment, she has worked with Creative Associates International (2007 - 09), Management Systems International (2000-05) and at the Louis Berger Group (1992-2000). Chloe also currently serves as an Adjunct Professor teaching international development and applied ethics at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland at College Park. In prior years, she served on the adjunct faculty at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University, and at the Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University. .

Chloe’s interests range from jazz dance to rock climbing, snow skiing to scuba diving and horse riding, and classical music. She remains active in coaching youth soccer, and in regular exercising at the gym and jogging.

She is co-author with David A. Crocker of The Relevance of Development Ethics for USAID (2005), and author of the book (December 2008), Reclaiming Value in International Development: The Moral Dimensions of Development Policy and Practice in Poor Countries (Praeger). She also has a chapter on the ethical response to violent conflict in Africa in the new (January 2010) book: New Directions in Development Ethics, edited by Charles Wilber and Amitava Dutt (University of Notre Dame Press).