Learning Design & Research Specialist
Charlotte Wright is a learning designer and researcher at Begin, where she helps design products grounded in the latest research on how young children learn best. She conducts research with children and families to ensure every experience sparks curiosity and fosters deep learning.
Charlotte’s career began with nearly a decade as a preschool and kindergarten teacher. Before Begin, she was the LEGO Foundation Research Fellow and Senior Research Associate at Temple University’s Infant and Child Lab, where she led LEGO’s Playful Learning and Joyful Parenting project with Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek. Her learning design and research experience in children’s media includes projects with Sago Mini, Sesame Workshop, and WNET. She also developed the early childhood content developer guidelines for the English Learners Success Forum (ELSF) and wrote and starred in the Playful Learning masterclasses on the early childhood app Kinedu. She currently serves as Bay Area Chapter President for the Children’s Media Association.
Her work has been published in Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Young Children, The Journal of Children and Media, and The Reading Teacher, among others. It has also been featured in The Hechinger Report, Brookings Institution, BOLD Education, and Fatherly.
Charlotte holds a Bachelor’s in Child Development from Tufts University, a Master’s in Early Childhood Education from Boston University, and a Master’s in International Education Development (Early Childhood Policy) from Columbia University.
