Charity MacDonald was born in the Northeastern part of Arizona in a small town called Tuba City. She attended college preparatory school at Cushing Academy, college at RISD and certificate studies at NYU. She worked in her adopted hometown of New York City for NYC Opera, Bear Stearns, Gruppo GFT USA, Prada USA, Ann, Inc. and served as a panelist on the New York State Council of the Arts. She worked as a freelancer for Diageo plc, Holt Renfrew, International Health Awareness Network, Saks Inc., the TJX Companies, Inc.
She spent her youth creating with all mediums available to her. Ranging from drawing/painting to sculpting and multi media installations. Finally, settling on performance installation art that brought her to Moscow, Russia twice. She also enjoyed working on independent movies (feature and short length) and producing her own documentary style videos.
Among these various experiences, she had the opportunity to represent her Navajo people by speaking at a World Peace Conference in Hiroshima, Japan amongst a panel of Nobel Laureates and Prime Ministers. She is very grateful for and appreciative of the opportunity to have travelled and worked in the following countries: Japan, Russia, Finland, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, France, England, Bahamas, Cuba,
Most recently, she has focused her social study corporate life skills, combined with her passion for clarity in communications towards working for the newly elected Navajo Nation President, Buu Nygren. She is a direct descendent of Navajo Code Talker, Peter MacDonald, Sr. The youngest of his five children.