Charlotte was born in Boston and grew up on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, the daughter of a French mother and Dutch father. Summers visiting family across Europe sparked a love of adventure and other cultures that have shaped her life and work. As a child, she dreamed of becoming a wildlife photographer for National Geographic and filled her family’s pet-filled home with drawings and snapshots.

After receiving her first SLR camera as a high school graduation gift, Charlotte spent a gap year traveling with a camera, journal and sketchbook. That year cemented her passion for storytelling through images. Over the next decade, she studied fine art, photography, and computer graphics while continuing to travel widely—visiting 30 countries before turning 30 and living in the UK, Italy, India and Australia. She learned to speak French, Spanish and Italian, and her travels have included trekking in the Himalayas, sleeping under the stars in the Sahara, riding a camel past the Egyptian pyramids, scuba diving the Blue Hole in Belize, bathing with elephants in Thailand and photographing wildlife on safari across Africa.

Charlotte later settled in Colorado, where she raised two daughters and built a career as a web and graphic designer, photographer and artist. She has created more than 150 artistic world maps and several public art pieces for resorts, campuses and private collectors. She collaborated with organizations such as Vail Resorts and the Denver Zoo and freelanced for Nat Hab for six years before joining the team full time in 2025.