In 1988 Mrs. Howard migrated to New York from Jamaica, West Indies where she worked at Mitchell Titus and Co., CPAs and later Buchbinder Tunick & Co., CPAs. It was there that her journey into nonprofit accounting began. In 1994 she was the Controller/ Director of Finance and Administration at a Long Island, New York nonprofit agency. She became directly involved in the management of the agency that served homeless, underprivileged individuals and worked with individuals with the HIV/AIDS virus. After seven years of service in the Long Island community, Mrs. Howard relocated with her family to Wellington, Florida. She worked at the Lighthouse for the Blind as the Chief Financial Officer until March 2006 when she joined the staff at Comprehensive AIDS Program as Chief Financial Officer.