She is an Elementary School teacher in Oakland from 1990. She was also the House Manager in the California Shakespeare Theater in Orinda, California since 1998, in addition to training at the theater’s student program. Her daughter Zendaya has performed in many stage productions at this theater and also has helped her seat patrons and sell raffle tickets to benefit the theater.

She met her boyfriend in the earlier 90s and they had married many years later. She has six children, Zendaya and her sibling, two older daughters Katianna and Annabella, two older brothers Austin and Kaylee and young boy Julien. Her star child Zendaya was born on on September 1, 1996 in Oakland too. She showed talent from childhood, and Claire tried to develop it on workplace in the theater or dancing courses. Years of hard work gives to Zendaya and her mother some popularity. When Zendaya was 16 years old she became a star of Disney Channel’s “Shake It Up”, being the youngest contestant ever in Dancing with the Stars. Zendaya says she seized the opportunity because it was something different to her and her mother helped to her a lot. Also, she wanted to please her grandma, who is a “super fan” of “Dancing with the star.” Her husband Kazembe - was Zendaya's manager during her start as a dancing star. Zendaya always says that her parents are the most selfless people in the world. Claire is often record videos of Zendaya to help her with a public life. Zendaya done a lot of dancing for “Shake It Up”, but she and her co-star Bella Thorne have mainly engaged in hip-hop dances. It was revealed that Zendaya will play a love interest of the superhero - Mary Jane Watson in the upcoming movie "Spider-Man: Homecoming" in 2017, opposite British young actor Tom Holland. Claire said that she is ready again to support her daughter at the beginning of her acting career.

Claire Stoermer filed for divorce from estranged husband Kazembe Ajamu Coleman in August 2016. The couple, exchanged vows in 2008, and only has one child together. Zendaya was an adult, so there wasn’t any child support issue between them. A year before Claire and Kazembe had divorced, Zendaya got a lot negative comments about her parents in the internet, but their daughter gives very smart answers to protect them. She said “They have chosen to spend their entire life, not worried about trivial things such as looks and insulting people's parents on Twitter, but instead became educators who have dedicated their lives to teaching, cultivating and filling young shallow minds. (One of the most important yet underpaid jobs we have).” There is no information about her net worth or net worth of her daughter Zendaya.