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Sharpe was the executive director of the Chuckanut Health Foundation from 2009-2019, which has advanced several community projects, and was a founding member of WAHA, the Whatcom Alliance for Health Advancement. Her volunteer work is just as impressive: She and her husband chaired the campaign to renovate Bellingham High School in the late 1990s, and she’s been a member of Western Washington University’s Board of Trustees since 2012.

For this body of work—and so much more—Sharpe is being honored with the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the .

“It’s a little overwhelming to be honest,” Sharpe says. “It’s such a wonderful honor.