Charlotte Kassimir

Biography

Charlotte Kassimir is a Peabody Award-winning producer who graduated with an M.B.A. with distinction from NYU's Leonard Stern School of Business, where she specialized in Entertainment, Media & Tech (EMT). Born and raised in New York City, Charlotte graduated summa cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa honors from Hamilton College (B.A. Psychology). She started her career in entertainment as a Research Associate Producer at HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where she successfully pitched and produced stories like "Bias in Medicine" and worked as a key research producer on stories like "Brexit", "Net Neutrality II", and the "French Elections", which collectively have ~50M views on YouTube. Switching mediums, Charlotte became the Co-Executive Producer of the chart-topping podcast How C*m?, where she managed both creative and business ventures. Most recently, Charlotte worked alongside Helen Fisher, the renowned anthropologist and best-selling author, researching and developing Fisher's seventh and final book, which will be published by Knopf in the US and in more than a dozen foreign editions. Charlotte's body of work demonstrates her commitment to telling important, frequently underreported stories in a fun, digestible way.