Jane Sheffield

Jane Sheffield has a passion for working with communities to recognize, conserve, and develop their natural and cultural assets.

Having earned a BA in Economics and Psychology from Duke University and a Masters in Landscape Architecture, Community Design Policy from NC State University School of Design, Jane launched a small business in downtown Durham drafting and passing local legislation, creating local historic district commissions and downtown historic districts, facilitating certified historic rehabilitations on commercial structures, initiating streetscape improvements, and securing National Register of Historic Places designations.

She relocated to PA serving as Altoona’s first Main Street Manager and then moved to New Hampshire to direct its statewide historic preservation organization.