In 1995 she founded Caribbean Contemporary Arts and was its Executive Director for twelve years. That organized was an autonomous regional developmental organization, based in Trinidad. Its main focus was to encourage Caribbean artists by supporting and fostering creative exchange between local, regional, and international artists. She built and established CCA7, a 20,000 squared foot Centre for the Contemporary Arts that housed galleries, artists' studios, educational facilities, archives, a library, and lecture and conference facilities.
Charlotte currently serves on the boards of the Allen Prize for Young Writers, the Advisory board of the Company Chameleon Dance Theatre in the United Kingdom, and the Doula Alliance of Trinidad and Tobago, as will as the Kittitian Hill Film Institute, which works to facilitate international exchange within the film industry.
In 2008 She established Khora, an organization committed to social change and development, as it simultaneously provides a space for yoga, creativity exchange, and workshops in the creative and healing arts.
Charlotte Elias is committed to movements for positive social change and she has also served on the boards of the Caribbean Arts Trust in the United Kingdom, the Artist Advisory boards of the Cuban Artists Fund, the Hudson Valley Project at Minetta Brook, in the United States, the Regional Network Committee for the Prince Claus Fund in the Netherland, the Academy at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, the National Museum of Trinidad and Tobago, the Trinidad and Tobago Entertainment Company and Caribbean Contemporary Arts, Trinidad.
Charlotte is also a certified Doula. She teaches yoga, and is currently working towards being an Anusara Inspired yoga teacher.
She is committed to the transformative work of evolutionary artists and healers, ancient as well as contemporary, a commitment that currently involves a consulting network of artists and practitioners that spans the globe from Los Angeles to Cape Town to London to Madrid to Buenos Aires, Cuba, Trinidad and India.