Dr. Nay Malloy Howell serves as our Senior Consultant and Project Leader for Strengthening the Foundation Leadership Development Program for African American Leaders.
A native of Durham, North Carolina, since childhood, Dr. Howell has been aware of injustices and disparities of resources for identifiable groups. She has devoted her life’s work to serving others while righting the wrongs; equipping others to address institutional inequities. A civil rights and social change trailblazer since junior high school she and her three younger sisters integrated Lowe’s Grove Elementary School in Durham, a previously all White school. After breaking many barriers of discrimination during her formative school years, their family learned to build bridges between diverse groups of people, based on race, age, and socioeconomic class particularly. These experiences set the stage for a life of advocacy for disenfranchised people. During her college (Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL) and law school careers, she served people and began community organizing for social change. Struck by the enormity of institutional barriers to freedom, Nay viewed the law as a means to right some wrongs and to educate people so that they would not need her skills as an attorney. Graduating from the UNC School of Law in 1979, she set about doing that through the Legal Aid Society of North Carolina as a Staff Associate Attorney, then as a Family Housing Counselor, and a university professor at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte. Nay viewed her role as a professor as one that would teach life skills by equipping college students and community residents to find their path in aiding people in communities. A number of her Urban Studies and Political Science students ran for public offices in City and County government.
Nay participated in numerous civic endeavors such as youth empowerment programs, voting registration drives, rides to the polls, roundtable of service providers for the elderly, strategic change work with judges for the 26th Judicial District, teacher education programs at UNC Charlotte and medical students at UNC Chapel Hill. During her years as a administrator in the then-largest school district in NC from 1988-1998 (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools), Nay began to facilitate workshops, seminars, and provide keynote addresses to school staffs, parents, students, and agencies about cultural diversity, multicultural education, effective ways to identify and address institutional barriers in companies, hospitals, schools, and city agencies.
She furthered her education by gaining a Master of Public Administration (UNC Charlotte), which equipped her to administer governmental funds while training City staff in 7 of 13 business units. A deeply committed Christian, Nay and her family returned to the Research Triangle region where she attended the Safe Haven Interdenominational Bible College and Training Institute. Over the next several years she received her Associate’s, Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees in Biblical Studies.
Her goals are to: Equip, lead, guide, and prepare, using strategic planning skill sets. Deeply involved in community inreach and outreach work, Nay has been heralded for her commitment, involvement, and drive. She was awarded a “Keeper of the Dream” award by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg MLK Community Observance Committee; Zeta Phi Beta Sorority’s “Heroes for Youth” Award, facilitator for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee, Eckerd College’s Community Servant Award (St. Petersburg, Florida), one of the facilitators for the 26th Judicial District series of diversity workshops and planning sessions, Davidson College’s “Lifetime Achievement in Education Award, and NCAEP Support Administrator of the Year (North Carolina Association of Educators).
Having enjoyed the careers mentioned above as well as YMCA of the USA’s national diversity consultant, domestic violence advocate, private consultant and entrepreneur, “Dr. Nay” is “officially” retired! With several published articles to her credit, she enjoys writing. Presently she is working on a book entitled, “From God’s Heart to Mine: Messages He Gave Me to Share with You.”
“My earthly degrees are important in that they have placed me before people I would not have met to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. However, my spiritual degrees are far more important than those. They are:
I received my BA = Born Again child of God at the age of 6
I received my BHS = Baptism with the Holy Spirit at age 23 while in law school, and
I’m working on my PHD = Praising Him Daily!”
Since 2019, she and husband, Dr. John W. Howell, Jr., have pastored Jesus Christ is the Way Anointed Worship and Deliverance Center. They know that real change begins in our hearts.
A native of Durham, North Carolina, since childhood, Dr. Howell has been aware of injustices and disparities of resources for identifiable groups. She has devoted her life’s work to serving others while righting the wrongs; equipping others to address institutional inequities. A civil rights and social change trailblazer since junior high school she and her three younger sisters integrated Lowe’s Grove Elementary School in Durham, a previously all White school. After breaking many barriers of discrimination during her formative school years, their family learned to build bridges between diverse groups of people, based on race, age, and socioeconomic class particularly. These experiences set the stage for a life of advocacy for disenfranchised people. During her college (Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL) and law school careers, she served people and began community organizing for social change. Struck by the enormity of institutional barriers to freedom, Nay viewed the law as a means to right some wrongs and to educate people so that they would not need her skills as an attorney. Graduating from the UNC School of Law in 1979, she set about doing that through the Legal Aid Society of North Carolina as a Staff Associate Attorney, then as a Family Housing Counselor, and a university professor at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte. Nay viewed her role as a professor as one that would teach life skills by equipping college students and community residents to find their path in aiding people in communities. A number of her Urban Studies and Political Science students ran for public offices in City and County government.
Nay participated in numerous civic endeavors such as youth empowerment programs, voting registration drives, rides to the polls, roundtable of service providers for the elderly, strategic change work with judges for the 26th Judicial District, teacher education programs at UNC Charlotte and medical students at UNC Chapel Hill. During her years as a administrator in the then-largest school district in NC from 1988-1998 (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools), Nay began to facilitate workshops, seminars, and provide keynote addresses to school staffs, parents, students, and agencies about cultural diversity, multicultural education, effective ways to identify and address institutional barriers in companies, hospitals, schools, and city agencies.
She furthered her education by gaining a Master of Public Administration (UNC Charlotte), which equipped her to administer governmental funds while training City staff in 7 of 13 business units. A deeply committed Christian, Nay and her family returned to the Research Triangle region where she attended the Safe Haven Interdenominational Bible College and Training Institute. Over the next several years she received her Associate’s, Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees in Biblical Studies.
Her goals are to: Equip, lead, guide, and prepare, using strategic planning skill sets. Deeply involved in community inreach and outreach work, Nay has been heralded for her commitment, involvement, and drive. She was awarded a “Keeper of the Dream” award by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg MLK Community Observance Committee; Zeta Phi Beta Sorority’s “Heroes for Youth” Award, facilitator for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee, Eckerd College’s Community Servant Award (St. Petersburg, Florida), one of the facilitators for the 26th Judicial District series of diversity workshops and planning sessions, Davidson College’s “Lifetime Achievement in Education Award, and NCAEP Support Administrator of the Year (North Carolina Association of Educators).
Having enjoyed the careers mentioned above as well as YMCA of the USA’s national diversity consultant, domestic violence advocate, private consultant and entrepreneur, “Dr. Nay” is “officially” retired! With several published articles to her credit, she enjoys writing. Presently she is working on a book entitled, “From God’s Heart to Mine: Messages He Gave Me to Share with You.”
“My earthly degrees are important in that they have placed me before people I would not have met to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. However, my spiritual degrees are far more important than those. They are:
I received my BA = Born Again child of God at the age of 6
I received my BHS = Baptism with the Holy Spirit at age 23 while in law school, and
I’m working on my PHD = Praising Him Daily!”
Since 2019, she and husband, Dr. John W. Howell, Jr., have pastored Jesus Christ is the Way Anointed Worship and Deliverance Center. They know that real change begins in our hearts.
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