This award recognizes significant service benefiting the greater good.

Charlotte has used her talents as an artist, photographer, and organized her to create life-changing opportunities for women and girls in rural Mexico through Las Rensaritas.

The group is named Mujeres en Cambio, meaning women in change. They're dedicated to the empowerment of women. Their purpose is twofold, to provide scholarships for girls since public education is not free in Mexico. Second, to teach a profitable craft to the women, thus increasing their family's income.

I got involved with these women and serendipitously.

I want to show you another face of Mexico, the human face that few travelers have ever seen up close... It is in the Campo with its tiny pueblos and farming villages that the true heart of Mexico lies.

I think this is very important right now, especially with the political ideas that many people have on this country about strangers.