Jovan Julien is an Assistant Professor with joint appointments in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech and also serves as a Volunteer Director of Finance & Administration at Organization for Human Rights and Democracy, an organizer at the Free Atlanta Abolition Movement, founding member of the Metro Atlanta Mutual Aid Fund, Program Steward at Regenerate Atlanta Cooperative Wealth Fund, and webmaster at Youth for Environmental Sanity. 

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Their driving passion is a quest for understanding of how individuals and communities can make choices in ways that expand wellness for all. In this as with all things, they are student of Black Caribbean radical traditions. They are a storyteller committed to collecting story-past and making story-future using tools including photography, organizing, facilitation, and mathematics.

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They integrate their various practices as an artists, engineer/ mathematician, facilitator, storyteller, and technologists to build administrative infrastructure in the world that supports the growth of a cooperative, consensus driven, ecosystems of organizers and community members with the political will, radical vision, queer praxis, and ancestral connection to build systems that sustain life today and ensure the most radical possibilities for generations future.

 

Their research interests build and facilitate learning around evidence to clarify the likely outcomes, trade-offs, costs, and benefits of a complex interaction of specific policies and dilemmas faced by communities.

Jovan is a student of many schools of thought emerging from the U.S. South, the Caribbean writ large, and Haitian peasant radicals specifically. Their work sits at the intersection of many including Octavia Butler and David Blackwell.