Bipeds of Brookland: Charlotte

Charlotte has lived in Brookland since she was born. She is an active member of the community helping with the Garden Club’s Christmas Gala and Annual Home and Garden Tour. “I like a lot of the people that are here. I like that it’s a good place to be a kid. You know, I would go out in the street with my brother and we would just play ball.”

Charlotte wrote her college essay about her job selling bread at the Brookland farmers’ markets.  “It’s really nice because you see these people passing by, even today someone came by and they were really excited to see me and …I was excited to see them.”

She will attend Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota next year. “It’s just this really beautiful campus in a beautiful neighborhood. It’s actually kind of like Brookland as there is public transportation five minutes away but it's just this quiet neighborhood that is part of a city.”

Charlotte has studied Latin since middle school, and is thinking of majoring in Classical Languages, History, or Theater.  She does lighting for theater productions at her school. “Everyday after school, if there’s a show going on, I’m in there.”

She is also proud of her work with the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia for DC Statehood, helping on the report Advocacy for Full Rights for DC Citizens. “We worked mostly in compiling what other people have been doing, to organize all the efforts for statehood/voting rights in an attempt to make them more effective. I was primarily talking to people about what they've been doing to spread awareness about the plight of DC.”

Interviewed by Tom Sabella