Julia Wilson

Notable work and positions

Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications, Hampton University - Dean
Wilson Global Communications, LLC - CEO and Founder
KCOP-TV (Los Angeles) - former broadcast journalist and field producer

Biography

Julia A. Wilson is dean of the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications at Hampton University, a historically Black university in Hampton, Virginia. A former print and television journalist, she covered Nelson Mandela's historic 1994 election as South Africa's first democratically elected president for Los Angeles station KCOP-TV, after which she founded Wilson Global Communications in Johannesburg, becoming the first American woman to establish a full-service public relations firm in post-apartheid South Africa. She later relocated the firm to Washington, D.C., where it specializes in cross-cultural communications for business, academic and civic clients across 13 countries. Since 2010 she has served as U.S. liaison representative for the China-United States Exchange Foundation, and in 2014 she established a 40-member network linking Historically Black Colleges and Universities with Chinese academic institutions. Wilson secured full accreditation renewal for Hampton's journalism school from the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in 2023, and is a graduate of the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.