About the Campaign Director

JOY HOWELL

Joy Howell is campaign director of the Broadband Changed My Life!^TM campaign, a nationwide effort by the Alliance for Public Technology to highlight the ways high-speed Internet improves the U.S. economy and quality of life.  She brings to this position an outstanding track record as a public policy strategist with over 25 years experience.

Ms. Howell's expertise encompasses media and business strategy as well as public policy analysis. Prior to this campaign, she directed the Office of Public Affairs of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Washington, D.C. She served on the FCC Chairman's senior management team, managed 70 employees, and conducted turn-around operations that reduced customer wait time from days to minutes.

Previously, she was Communications Director to U.S. Senator Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) who was then designated by Capitol Hill reporters as "the most nationally visible freshman senator in recent memory." As President of Howell Communications Group, Washington, D.C./Los Angeles, she represented over 100 Fortune 1000 corporations and their trade associations and a range of non-profit associations from World Cup soccer to a home for troubled kids.

After completing her MBA at the University of Redlands, she studied public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and business at Harvard Business School. She earned a Master in Public Administration (MPA) with a focus on international business and public policy, including telecommunications convergence, corporate strategy, international marketing, and change management. Studies in international business at Cambridge University, England, inspired her MBA thesis on the European Monetary Union.   

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