Charlotte is a Doctoral student in the Language, Literacy, and Culture program at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Her research interests include Digital Storytelling, Childbirth Narratives, and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. She has an MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts from UMBC where she completed a thesis on the nexus of art, food systems, and social justice. She was an Open Society Institute Fellow, building food access programming in Southwest Baltimore. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in San Sebastián Huehuetenango, Guatemala from 2008-2010, helping to form women’s groups organized around gender equity and rural community development. Charlotte has taught classes at UMBC in Food Systems, Photography, and Public Art in the Visual Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies programs. She lives in Northwest Baltimore with her partner Arnold and their two children, Cole and Greta.
