Charan Devereaux

Trustee

Charan Devereaux is interested in the intersection of community, history and art. Her projects explore communities or bring people together to learn about or support each other. She grew up near Cleveland, Ohio and currently lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.  

Charan studied photography at the Massachusetts College of Art, the New England School of Photography, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and Harvard University. Her projects have received support from the Boston Foundation, Mass Humanities, the Somerville Arts Council, the Harvard Business School Business Plan Competition (social enterprise track) and the Passim Iguana Fund and have been recognized by the Points of Light Foundation, the Boston Music Awards, and the AASLH Leadership in History Awards. 

Charan has also curated the highly acclaimed exhibit Union Square at Work at the Somerville Museum in 2015 and Faith in a City: Exploring Religion in Somerville, MA in 2019.