Moderator: General Session - Our Collective Role in Empowering Women and Cultivating Diversity in Aerospace

As the Principal Consultant for Lquinox, Charity brings experience as an operator, manager, diplomat and advocate for space and satellite applications.

Previously, she held the position of Senior Director of Policy at the Satellite Industry Association (SIA), where she was responsible for advancing U.S. satellite industry interests in government services, regulatory, legislative, defense, export-control and trade. Prior to SIA, Charity served as the Canadian Embassy Assistant Attaché for Air and Space Operations, where she facilitated Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) space engagements with the U.S. Government, industry, and the Embassy community.

Charity is a 23-year veteran of the RCAF, starting her career as a CP-140 (P-3) maritime patrol Air Navigator conducting airborne maritime surveillance operations, followed by assignments as Deputy Sensor Manager for the U.S. Space Surveillance Network at U.S. Air Force Space Command, policy officer at NORAD and USNORTHCOM, and as Flight Support Operations Manager at the Canadian Space Agency.

Charity brings a unique and strategic perspective to space and satellite applications, and space domain awareness: as industry representative on the FAA Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC), briefing the NOAA Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES), as guest lecturer at George Washington University and the U.S. State Department Foreign Service Institute, and as industry support to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS). Charity regularly speaks on think tank and conference panels regarding international space cooperation, Maritime Domain Awareness, the Arctic, space situational awareness, small satellites, IoT, and space policy.

Charity attended Royal Military College of Canada (BEng, Mechanical), the University of North Dakota (MSc, Space Studies), International Space University (Certificate Summer Session), and Brookings Executive Education (Certificate Policy Strategy). She is Board President of the Society of Space and Satellite Professionals International Mid-Atlantic Chapter, a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, and is a proud mentor for the 2018 Brooke Owens Fellowship.