Charlotte Mangin

Charlotte Mangin is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and the creator, executive producer, director, and writer of UNLADYLIKE2020, an innovative animated documentary series for PBS about unsung women who changed America at the turn of the 20th century, honoring the centennial of women’s suffrage. She started her career on the production staff of National Geographic Television & Film, reporting from the jungles of the Amazon to the Himalayan Mountains. As a story producer for PBS’s international affairs series Wide Angle, she oversaw the production of a dozen documentaries covering issues such as legal reform in China, human rights in Zimbabwe, and race relations in Brazil. Her hour-long Wide Angle program, Class of 2006, about women’s rights in Morocco, won an International Documentary Award. Mangin was nominated for 4 Emmy Awards for a 6-hour series commemorating Thirteen/WNET’s 50th anniversary in 2012. She was the Series Producer for America By the Numbers, a PBS series telling underreported stories about America’s changing demographics, and for Humanizing America, a digital shorts series for NBCNews.com profiling the diversity of the American experience today. In 2016-2017 and 2021-2022, she served as Interim Executive Director of the non-profit journalism organization Futuro Media. A native French speaker, Mangin was born in Paris, attended Amherst College, and earned a master’s degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University.