Sara Howell

Sara Howell is the associate director of policy at the Public School Forum. She oversees the NC Education Policy Fellowship (EPFP) and helps design the Forum’s local engagement and advocacy work. She also helps track and analyze education policy developments.

Sara is a lifelong North Carolinian, Wake County Public Schools graduate, former Durham Public Schools educator, and a parent of two future North Carolina Public Schools students. She celebrates the power of our local public schools and also recognizes the potential they have to grow when fully and equitably funded. First exposed to the work of the Forum as an EPFP fellow in 2018, she joined the Forum in 2021.