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Eleanor Sharpe is the principal and founder of Sharpe Solutions: Cities, Places, and People, an esteemed planning consulting and advisory firm focused on bringing innovative approaches to urban development and community empowerment.  Sharpe also currently serves in an advisory position to the City Council of Philadelphia in the Council President’s office as Chief of Planning & Development. With a distinguished career spanning over a decade with the City of Philadelphia, Sharpe’s prior position was as Interim Deputy Mayor/Director of the Department of Planning and Development where she oversaw bodies such as the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, the Philadelphia Historical Commission, the Philadelphia Art Commission, and the Zoning Board of Adjustment.  She has also served as an adjunct professor in city planning and architecture at Temple University, Drexel University, and the University of Pennsylvania over the past two decades. Sharpe graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Howard University and a Master’s in City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania