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Kristy W. Howell, Ed.D (she/her/hers)

Associate Director, Institute for Community and Economic Engagement
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States

Kristy Wittman Howell, Ed.D serves as the Associate Director of the Institute for Community and Economic Engagement at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. As a career educator, historian, and community organizer, Kristy 's experiences are varied, including advocating for student and institutional leadership in sustainable development, developing faculty capacity for sustainability-focused education, coordinating honors and undergraduate research opportunities in community-based participatory scholarship and study abroad, and institutional research. Throughout, her focus has been on the development, growth, and understanding of more equitable institutional cultures and communities for faculty, staff, students, and community members. Kristy holds an Ed.D. in Community College Leadership from Northern Illinois University, where her research focused on the history and development of community colleges in racially-restricted communities, and graduate and undergraduate degrees from Western Kentucky University and the University of Southern Mississippi in sustainable community development and history.

As a scholar/practitioner, Kristy’s current research focuses on the history of integration and student experiences in Mississippi community colleges during the 1960s, continuing her focus on how we create educational communities. Her current work is in support of community advisory boards that improve research on community health and food access and faculty development for engaged scholarship and pedagogy.

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