Charity Moore Norton

Principal Investigator, AllStar Ecology, LLC

Charity Moore Norton is the CWVA's Vice-President. She is currently the Social Media Manager for the CWVA managing all manner of public inquiry for the Facebook page. She is employed by AllStar Ecology, LLC as a Principal Investigator and has worked on a variety of archaeological and cultural resource management projects in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

Charity received her bachelor's degree in Anthropology/Archaeology from Mercyhurst College, where she completed a comprehensive cemetery survey and threat assessment report as part of the Erie County Historic Cemetery Survey. During the completion of her master's degree in European Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, she focused on Neolithic ceremonial sites and their interaction with the palaeoenvironment.

Her research interests in West Virginia focus on Native American rock features and ceremonial stone landscapes, and she has published and presented on this topic at regional and national conferences. Outside of archaeology, she enjoys cosplay, community service, and is an instructor for the Outer Rim Praxeum Lightsaber School, as well as its social media manager.