As President of Community Partners Consultants, Inc., Adele Fleet Bacow has extensive expertise in community economic development, program and strategic planning, community cultural development, design, and the arts.

   Over the past twenty-five years, she has brought the public and private sectors together in unlikely collaborations to revitalize communities. Many of these lessons are presented in her book, Designing the City: A Guide for Advocates and Public Officials.

   Ms. Bacow advises community development corporations, public agencies, businesses, foundations, communities, and cultural organizations around the country.

   Previously she served as Director of Design and Development for the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, creating a new program to improve the quality of design and planning in the state. In this capacity, she created and managed programs in community design, bridge design, highway landscape design, innovative state design policies for public finance and development agencies, and the Governor's Design Awards Program; she received a Federal Design Achievement Award for this work.

   Ms. Bacow also has significant experience in public development and finance from her work as Deputy Director of the Massachusetts Government Land Bank.

   Ms. Bacow holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Urban Design from Wellesley College where she graduated as a Wellesley Scholar, and she earned a Masters Degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.