Amy Howell

Howell’s work covers policies related to employment, transition planning, and organizational partnerships that assist state and federal disability beneficiaries through services and supports.

Howell focuses on policies that promote person-centered preferences and opportunities for competitive integrated employment among people with disabilities, particularly transition youth and people with significant disabilities. She has extensive experience supporting qualitative research and technical assistance efforts as a grantee liaison.

Howell currently works on the Disability Innovation Fund 2022 program evaluation for the U.S. Department of Education's Rehabilitation Services Administration, which involves 14 grantees promoting competitive integrated employment among people working for or contemplating subminimum wage employment. She also works on the Disability Innovation Fund 2023 program evaluation, which involves 20 grantees that will develop pathways to partnerships for systematic and seamless approaches to providing services to children and youth with disabilities through collaborations between state vocational rehabilitation agencies, state education agencies, local education agencies, federally funded Centers for Independent Living, and other organizations serving these populations.

Howell is a certified rehabilitation counselor and vocational evaluation specialist. She holds an M.S. in rehabilitation counseling from the University of Tennessee and an M.P.A. with a graduate certificate in public policy from Tennessee State University.