Timothea Howard is the National Outreach Coordinator for California Newsreel and the film RACE - The Power of an Illusion a three-part documentary series produced for public television. She is a community, labor and cultural organizer and organizing trainer. She served as a labor organizer with the American Federation of Teachers, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees-Council 31, International Brotherhood of Teamsters and as a campus recruiter for the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute. From 1998-2001, she served as the Senior Organizer for the National Organizers Alliance.
In Washington, DC, Timothea was the Lead Organizer for the Columbia Heights/Shaw Family Support Collaborative and the community-organizing consultant for DC VOICE. She conducted organizing trainings for the National Organizers Alliance, Black Radical Congress, the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, DC VOICE, Mothers on the Move, LISTEN, Inc., the Michigan Coalition against Domestic Violence - Women of Color Caucus, and the Inter-Group Community Initiative of the Mosaica Foundation. Timothea serves on the board of directors of the Nuclear Information and Research Service, the Praxis Project, the DC Writers Corp, and the Youth Justice Funding Collaborative.
As an artist, Timothea continues to work, when possible, as stagehand, director and stage manager for local community-based theater companies, as well as the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage and the Public Theater in New York City. She is a member of Sophie's Parlor Feminist Radio Collective and continues to produce and co-host a women news and music show on WPFW Pacifica 89.3FM in Washington, DC.