Mia Howerton is Group Leader with the United States Department of Education. She offers 20 years of discretionary grant experience, having managed grants in the Offices of Postsecondary Education, Innovation and Improvement, and Elementary and Secondary Education. Prior to joining the Department, she was a middle and high school social studies teacher for eight years in Richmond Public Schools. The choice to trade in her chalkboard for a “Request for Proposals/Notice Inviting Applications” came with the desire to serve students on a broader scale. 

In addition to her work with the Department, Mia is mom to Jordyn and feels this is her most rewarding job yet. She believes in the importance of bringing fun into the workplace and acknowledges that while we will not always like every aspect of our work, when we work with folks who make us smile and with folks who don’t mind getting into a little “good trouble,” the rough times will not seem so bad. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. 

Mia holds a Bachelor of Science in History and Political Science Education from Virginia Union University.