Helen Sharp died at 40 in the Learjet crash. Friends say she lived life to the fullest.

Helen Sharp, a 40-year-old PR expert and ceramicist, was flying alongside her husband, Adam Robinson; their children, Emma and Charlie; their friends, Rachael Reed and Charmi Fehr; and their children's nanny, Anita Maria Cetina, whenever their private jet crashed, slaying all nine passengers.

Based on accounts from friends, family, and chap artists who knew her, Sharp was a gifted ceramics artist, a earth traveler, a loving mother and wife, and a cherished friend.

"Helen embodied a existence fine lived," stated a declaration posted on her ceramics Instagram leaf on behalf of allies and family. "She embraced the world, made beautiful things, built enduring relationships, and loved her group fiercely. "

She graduated from the University of Arizona

"Helen was incredibly ambitious, talented, and a ray to be around," Texas-based pottery creator Rebeca Proctor commented on Instagram.

Proctor told Business Insider that she and Sharp were family allies expanding up in Houston and became nearer whenever Sharp began taking a category at the community pottery studio Proctor owned.

Sharp attended the University of Arizona. According to a tribute Facebook post from the University of Arizona School of Art, she graduated in 2009 alongside a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies, focusing on art former and anthropology.

She traveled the world

Her LinkedIn showed that she spent period in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as an ESL instructor from 2008 to 2009 and in Taipei, Taiwan, as a author and publishing company from 2013 to 2014.

"I remaining my family, friends, and everything I knew to be solitary — to develop up distant from community as I knew it," she wrote in an Instagram article in November 2025 concerning her period in Taiwan. "My isolation and regrowth were pivotal to my betterment as an adult."

According to her LinkedIn, she returned to Argentina in 2015, anywhere she worked for multiple years, archetypal as a endeavor betterment director and afterward as an document executive.

It was in Buenos Aires that she "met the affection of her life, Adam," the Instagram declaration said.

She made a occupation in community relations

In 2019, Sharp founded her own boutique community relations agency, Influential PR, which focused on sustainable and mission-driven brands.

She announced in May 2024 that her near companion of 20 years, Molly Ford Leibowitz, would be joining Influential PR as COO and partner.

She had a affection for ceramics and opened her own studio

Sharp had a self-professed "lifelong affection for clay" which started whenever she archetypal touched clay in kindergarten.

Sharp posted on LinkedIn in February that she had started her own ceramics studio in Aspen, and that Leibowitz would continue to run Influential PR.

At the time, Proctor recalled, Sharp was in the third trimester of her gestation alongside her son Charlie, whom she called her "miracle baby."

"I recall her coming into the studio, extremely pregnant, fair glowing and beaming alongside joy, operating on this huge piece," Proctor recalled. "She was incredibly powerful though, and determined, but additionally knew whenever to obtain help. We were all amazed by her."

Sharp went on to prosecute her goal of having a prosperous occupation as a ceramics artist, taking workshops alongside artists specified as Austin Coudriet, Paul Briggs, and Bari Ziperstein.

Proctor remembered Sharp as being humble and prepared to learn.

"I think in all part of her life, Helen had a vision, and she would continually see it through, equal through challenges — which, in ceramics, there are many!"

She was cherished in the ceramics community and beyond

After the tragedy, tributes to Sharp and her family inundated in.

"She was my ceramics sister," a chap ceramics creator commented on Instagram. "I can't equal say how much her fair being her inspired me to be the female I am today, and to accept in my own power and endowment and the possibilities in forefront of me."

"She had this beautiful capability to rotate any instant into item fun, to create group laugh, and to create equal an average day awareness special," wrote another commenter, who stated he'd met Sharp in Argentina and hired her.

Bari Ziperstein, among the artists Sharp had learned from, commented, "I'm in total shock! What a defeat for the pottery community & all that she was building."

She loved her children and family

Sharp was remembered as having been deeply devoted to her family and husband.

"Helen and Adam were the affection matter that volition final forever," the families' shared declaration read.

The Instagram article on her ceramics document remembered her and Robinson having "built a existence established in family, adventure and love."

"Her happiest location was next to Adam and their two beautiful children, alongside alongside their dog Bonnie, who was continually by her flank (and normally in her lap)," it continued.

"She was a fantastic mother and an amazing individual who lived existence to the fullest," Proctor told Business Insider.