Charlotte Masters

Charlotte Masters is a senior at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy majoring in Human Development and Psychological Services with a Minor in History. She is the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor and has spent the last six years involved with various initiatives geared towards Holocaust education and curriculum development. From 2014 to 2018, she served as part of a national cohort with the USC Shoah Foundation charged with learning about and developing tools to support tolerance education. During this time, she traveled to Poland and Hungary to help pilot the iWalk program, an interactive tool to connect physical locations with survivor testimony and assist educators from around the globe in creating testimony-based course content. In 2015, Charlotte launched a Survivors Speakers Bureau to bring Holocaust survivors to Washington, DC area schools, reaching over 800 students in total. She has written numerous poems about her grandmother’s experience as a Czech Kindertransport survivor and Holocaust memory in general. Masters is passionate about working with children and currently serves as an intern at the Pediatric Developmental Center of Advocate Medical in Chicago and a senior member of the executive board of her university’s chapter of Kesem, a non-profit dedicated to supporting children through and beyond their parent or guardian’s cancer. She is particularly interested in education accessibility and the role testimony plays in the construction of collective memory. Charlotte aims to conduct future research on how the Roma community in Poland organizes to promote cross-cultural understanding.