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Charlotte Hanna

Founder & CEO

Community Growth Partners

Charlotte Hanna is the founder of Rebelle, a new cannabis brand that enables those directly impacted by the criminalization of marijuana to benefit from a now-legal, lucrative industry. A serial entrepreneur, Charlotte founded Community Growth Partners in 2018 and established the first woman-and-minority-owned vertically integrated cannabis company in Massachusetts. Previously, Charlotte worked for 30 years in real estate, finance, and philanthropy and was the VP at Goldman Sachs and the principal at Charlotte Hanna Design. Throughout her career, she has helped launch sustainable urban farming initiatives, and similarly innovative economic development programs around the country, as a grantee of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 2019 she was named one of the Seven Women in Cannabis to Watch by Entrepreneur Magazine. Charlotte earned her degrees from American University and New York University, where she was an Annie Casey Foundation Research Fellow. She is married with two children and resides in Brooklyn, NY.