Julia Wilson
Julia A. Wilson is a Fulbright Grant recipient and former print and broadcast journalist who lived and worked in Africa for several years. Wilson covered the first all-race elections in South Africa in 1994, and made history as the first American woman to found a full-service public relations firm in the new democratic South Africa. An international pioneer, Wilson became known in Africa for promoting positive news on people of African descent.
She became the first to promote the West African country of Ghana during President Bill Clinton’s visit to Accra; the first TV journalist to interview Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who was elected as Africa’s first woman president; first to create an American section in an international diplomatic magazine published in Paris, France; first to create and publish “Good News Magazine” in Los Angeles following the Rodney King civil unrest to bridge racial and cultural gaps; first to develop and position one of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Xavier University of Louisiana) to establish a Confucius Institute to teach Mandarin Chinese language and culture based on the concept of Marc H. Morial, CEO of the National Urban League (WGC client); and the first African American woman chosen to represent a leading Chinese organization in Hong Kong headed by a top leader of the People’s Republic of China to link African American businesses and educators with mutually beneficial collaborative opportunities.