Dr. Pamela Howze serves as Senior Program Manager, Global Apprenticeships at Red Hat, where she leads apprenticeship initiatives. She has worked in higher education for 30 years both at community colleges and at NC State University as an adjunct professor. She was a Chief Learning Officer at Siemens Energy in Charlotte, NC and Merck in Durham, NC. She also worked at the national level on apprenticeship initiatives. She earned her doctorate in education from NC State University in 2015.