Charlotte Lagarde, COO & Co-founder
After 25 years in advocacy work, Charlotte brings her passion for systems change to B.Public to address climate and housing issues and returns to her first love of architecture and the built environment – a legacy of her family.
Prior to B.Public, as the executive director of the Swell Foundation, a non-profit corporation she founded in 1998, she produced over 20 films and raised millions of dollars. Her work has aired on PBS, the Sundance Channel, HBO, been exhibited at MASS MoCA and has received many awards including an Academy Award.
She is a Sundance, BAVC and Camargo Foundation fellow. Her latest visual art project Colonial White premiered in the exhibit The Racial Imaginary Institute: On Whiteness at The Kitchen, NY and was part of the exhibit Great Force at ICA-VCU, as a city-wide participatory project in Richmond, VA.
Charlotte serves on the Board of Directors of The Free History Project and previously served as the Director of Communication on the Steering Committee of New Day Films. She has an MA in Communication from Stanford University and a BA in Political Studies from Pitzer College.