Charlotte Mast

Charlotte Mast is from Concord, Massachusetts, and earned her B.A. from Colby College in 2023, where she double majored in Russian Language and Culture and Global Studies with a concentration in Human Rights and Social Justice. She graduated with Honors in Russian and Departmental Distinction in Global Studies. During her undergraduate studies, Charlotte studied abroad in Dijon, France, and Saint Petersburg, Russia, where she witnessed the onset of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the rapid transformation of Russian society that followed. Her time in Saint Petersburg shaped her academic and professional interests, inspiring her senior research on the use and documentation of conflict-related sexual violence in the Russo-Ukrainian War and her broader focus on accountability for atrocity crimes.

While at Colby, Charlotte served as a research assistant to international human rights lawyer Olga Sadovskaya, examining how legal definitions of torture shape policy implementation in international and domestic courts, and served on the Student Advisory Committee of the Oak Institute for Human Rights. She also completed an honors project consisting of the first complete English translation of a previously untranslated cycle of poems by the twentieth-century Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva.

Charlotte’s professional experience has centered on international human rights advocacy, accountability, and access to justice. She interned with the Anti-Torture Team at the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) in Geneva, Switzerland, where she supported civil society engagement with the United Nations Committee Against Torture state review sessions. She later served as Head of Public Affairs and Advocacy at the Idmaj Foundation for Development in Casablanca, Morocco, where she led initiatives to expand access to education and health services and developed grant proposals supporting the establishment of a women’s shelter.

Following her work with Idmaj, Charlotte served as a Global Rule of Law Intern at the World Justice Project in Washington, D.C., contributing to the 2024 and 2025 editions of the WJP Rule of Law Index through comparative legal research and analysis. Before beginning law school, she worked as a Victim Witness Advocate with the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, supporting victims and witnesses navigating the criminal justice system.

Through her experiences living, studying, and working across Europe, Africa, and the United States, Charlotte hopes to pursue a career documenting atrocity crimes, strengthening accountability mechanisms, and advancing survivor-centered responses to gender-based violence and conflict-related sexual violence. At Georgetown Law, she looks forward to exploring international human rights law, international criminal law, and transitional justice. In her free time, Charlotte enjoys traveling, practicing yoga, and caring for her plants and her bunny, Apollo.