Charity MacDonald was born in Tuba City, a small town in the northeastern part of Arizona. She attended Cushing Academy, a college preparatory school, before continuing her education at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and later earning certification at New York University (NYU). Over the course of her career, she worked with a diverse range of organizations in New York City, including the NYC Opera, Bear Stearns, Gruppo GFT USA, Prada USA, Ann Inc., and served as a panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts. She also freelanced for major companies such as Diageo plc, Holt Renfrew, the International Health Awareness Network, Saks Inc., and The TJX Companies, Inc.

From a young age, Charity was drawn to the creative process, exploring various mediums such as drawing, painting, sculpture, and multimedia installations. Ultimately, she found her passion in performance installation art, which took her to Moscow, Russia, on two separate occasions. Her artistic journey also included work on independent films, both feature-length and short, as well as producing documentary-style videos.

One of the defining moments in her career was representing her Navajo heritage as a speaker at the Hiroshima Peace Conference "Building a Just and Sustainable Peace" in Hiroshima, Japan, where she shared the stage with Nobel Laureates and Prime Ministers. A couple years prior, she was featured in Le Monde 2 Magazine about the upcoming elections in 2004. More recently, Charity had the honor of working within the Executive Branch of the Navajo Nation, collaborating closely with the current Navajo Nation President for a brief but impactful six-month period, before returning home to care for her aging parents and her young son.
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Charity is deeply grateful for the opportunity to have traveled and worked in a variety of countries, including Japan, Russia, Finland, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, France, England, the Bahamas, and Cuba.
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She is also a proud direct descendant of Peter MacDonald Sr., a World War II Navajo Code Talker, and is the youngest of his five children.