Biography

Charlotte Farhan is an artist, illustrator, writer and activist, known for appearing in 2017 documentary 'As Bad As It Gets'. She is an acclaimed visual artist and the illustrator of children's novel 'The Wishing Machine', published Oct 31 2014. She is the managing director of non-profit arts organization Art Saves Lives International and the editor of ASLI Magazine.

Charlotte campaigns as an activist against inequality, the stigmatization of mental illness, rape culture, capitalism and war. Her views have received international media attention, including in The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Mail, The Mirror, Le Huffington and Le Monde. She has written articles for CNBC, Open Minds Quarterly (as a Resident Artist) and ASLI Magazine. Her Facebook post about why she would not be changing her profile picture to an overlay of the Tricolor in the wake of the Paris Attacks, even though she is French and from Paris, went viral and was shared over 400,000 times on social media.

Originally from Paris, Charlotte now lives with her husband Mohammed in Portsmouth, UK, along with their two cats and psychiatric warning dog, Amadeus. She has a diploma in Fine Art and BA degrees in Creative Writing, Philosophy, and Psychological Sciences.
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