LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH

Valerie Goodloe joined the United States Army Reserves. She was trained as a Behavioral Science Specialist, Specializing in Sexual Abuse, Domestic Violence, Family Dynamics, and continued her training and became a Certified Drug & Alcohol Counselor. Goodloe also opened a Home for Recovering Alcoholics women called the STEPPING STONE RECOVERY HOME. She has been a part of many non-profit endeavors, to include coordinating Bone Marrow Drives with the National Marrow Donor Program and the American Red Cross in the Untied States Postal Services all over Los Angeles County.

Photojournalist Valerie Goodloe was commissioned by the City of Los Angeles for a photo exhibit of African American leaders, “From Darkness Rise,” and was the first photographer to have a solo show at The California African American Museum. For two consecutive years, while working at the Los Angeles Sentinel, she won “Best Front Page News Picture.” She was the official photographer for “Save Africa’s Children, founded by Bishop Charles E. Blake, the Worldwide Bishop of The Church of God In Christ. Valerie has become Bishop Blake’s personal photographer. Known as the Photographer of the Stars has shot on Sets of Major Black shows on BET and other national networks. She was still photographer on set for the film Phat Girlz Starring Mo’nique, set photographer for Jecaryous Johnson on his productions as well. She was the first & only Female Black Photographer at Johnson Publishing, Jet & Ebony Magazine and traveled the world with both president Clinton 2007 and in 2008; Valerie followed the campaign trail nationally and internationally as a part of the Traveling Press Corps with then Senator Barrack Obama.
She has had several photo exhibits, to include Her work in Africa, as well as a Motown Exhibit for the City of Los Angeles
Trusted by political and organizations alike, as “the go to photographer” to get the job done. Goodloe has been the personal photographer for notable such as Steve Harvey, Cedric The Entertainer, Tichina Arnold, Monique, Glynn Turman, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, and many more. She is known as “The Quiet Photographer Behind The Lens.”

A Southern California native, Valerie directed and produced Gang Girl “A Mother’s Journey to Save Her Daughter” who was in The Notorious Blood Gang, which was nominated for Best Director, and received Best Documentary Film at the San Diego Black Film Festival 2011. The documentary won the Audience Award at the Pan African Film Festival in 2011. She is now traveling the country sharing her experience as a photojournalist, filmmaker, and mother to a daughter who was a gang member, but who is now turning her life around as a result of the film that follows her gang culture affiliation. Valerie’s latest venture is her new film Before Your Time “An Unprepared Journey” Dissecting Gung and Gang violence, Grief and trauma.
She and her husband Lemonade Goodloe created a non-profit organization, in 1998 called ISRA that served women & men incarcerated. The focus of the organization changed in 2008 to W.I.N.D.O.W. “Women In Need of Discovering Own Worth” in the hope of helping to change the lives of girls & women at risk.
Goodloe has spent many hours developing programs that are geared towards women & girls.
The thought is that “you save a woman or a girl you save a nation.”
Valerie and her husband Lemonde have relocated to Chicago, and started the Black On Black Love Community Garden, and were voted in as Block Club President by her Auburn Gresham community,
Goodloe is also a filmmaker having her first film Gang Girl “A Mother’s Journey To Save Her Daughter” Win Best Feature Length Documentary at the San Diego and was nominated as best Director at International Film Festival 2011, Also that same film won the Audience Award at the Pan African Film Festival in 2011 as well.
The film has been all over the country as a teaching tool of the Juvenile Justice System, in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, where she currently resides. Her latest venture is a docu-series Before Your Time “An Unprepared Journey” An in depth study of families that lose their children to Gun & Gang Violence.
She is the Director, and primary Videographer as well as Still Photographer and is now in Post-Production. Estimated time of completion, 2023.