Tune into WOL 1450 AM, 95.9 FM or the WOL Livestream on Thursday, January 22 at 10:30 a.m. EST for Everything Co-op, hosted by Vernon Oakes.
This week, Everything Co-op launches its Black History Month series with Julian M. Hill. Julian’s scholarship and practice illuminate how collective economic models have supported Black communities in building resilience, shared prosperity and democratic control over resources. His perspective is especially timely for the 2026 Black History Month theme, “A Century of Black History Commemorations,” as he and Vernon explore how Black cooperative traditions are remembered, sustained, and reimagined for the future.
Julian Hill is Assistant Professor of Law and Founding Co-Director of the Center for Access to Justice, Center for Clinical Programs, Community Development & Entrepreneurship Law Clinic at Georgia State University College of Law. Hill is a teacher, lifelong learner, community organizer, artist and attorney who knows that the world we deserve, though both possible and necessary, is not inevitable. He regularly advises worker cooperatives, collectives, nonprofits, and small businesses on a range of matters, including governance, contracts, regulatory compliance, and corporate law matters.
Hill is also known to partner with community-based organizations to co-facilitate political education and co-develop policies and campaigns. They have facilitated workshops, both in English and Spanish, on worker cooperatives and the solidarity economy with Law 4 Black Lives, the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, Democracy at Work Institute, the New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives, and the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, among others. Julian has prepared and delivered testimony before both the New York State Assembly and the New York City Council on issues facing worker cooperatives and small businesses in New York.
Julian has an LL.M. in advocacy, with honors, from Georgetown University Law Center, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. in philosophy, with honors, from Northwestern University.