Editing Carla Howell (section)

== Early life and education ==
Howell is the daughter of Carla (Winsor) Howell and Charles Howell, the third of their five children.<ref name="Schweitzer 2002">{{cite news |last1=Schweitzer |first1=Sarah |title=For Howell, Libertarian View Hits Home |work=[[Boston Globe]] |date=18 Oct 2002 |page=A1}}</ref> She is a great-granddaughter of [[William Eustis Russell]], a former [[Governor of Massachusetts|Governor of the Commonwealth]] of [[Massachusetts]].<ref name="Schweitzer 2002"/> Her father worked as a business executive and her mother engaged in volunteer work in the community.<ref name="Schweitzer 2002"/> As a result of her father's work, the family moved from Massachusetts, and Howell attended high school in Detroit and Pittsburgh, graduating from Fox Chapel High School in Pittsburgh at age 16.<ref name="Schweitzer 2002"/> 

Howell attended Bethany College in West Virginia for [[mathematics]] and [[computer science]], and after graduating, became a systems engineer at [[Westinghouse Electric]].<ref name="Schweitzer 2002"/> In 1981, she began work at [[Computervision]] and became the head of an engineering division in 1984.<ref name="Schweitzer 2002"/> After a decade of engineering work, she then became a consultant in the Boston area for the high-tech and health care industry.<ref name="Schweitzer 2002"/>

Howell earned her [[MBA]] from [[Babson College]] in [[Wellesley, Massachusetts]] in 1986.<ref>[http://www.carlahowell.org/about.html ''Carla Howell'' "about page"]</ref>