Atty. Julian D. Miller is the Co-Founding Executive Director of the Reuben V. Anderson Center for Justice.
He was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta region in Winstonville, MS. He matriculated at Harvard University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in government in 2007. After college, he returned home to the MS Delta to do anti-poverty and community development work there before entering law school.
He graduated from the University of MS School of Law in December 2012 with honors. He served as a judicial law clerk for the Mississippi Supreme Court. He was formerly a senior associate attorney at some of the most prestigious law firms in Mississippi. He has served as lead counsel and argued cases before the Mississippi Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He currently serves as Senior Supervising Attorney at Southern Poverty Law Center.
For the past 15 years, however, his main focus has been developing anti-poverty projects in the areas of economic justice, public health equity, educational equity, and criminal justice equity that will have a transformational impact on public policy in Mississippi. He co-founded an organization called Delta Fresh Foods Initiatives that developed sustainable, community food systems throughout the Mississippi Delta. He parlayed that work into co-founding the Reuben V. Anderson Center for Justice, which would be the first of its kind in Mississippi to address the intersection of race, poverty, educational inequity and economic injustice through grassroots community development projects and policy advocacy.
In partnership with Tougaloo College through the establishment of the Reuben V. Anderson Institute for Social Justice, he has raised several million dollars in grants to develop policy projects in the areas of economic justice, criminal justice equity, public health equity, and educational equity.
HEAL Food Alliance
2025 School of Political Leadership
Mississippi Fresh
Julian Miller

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Co-Founding Executive Director,
Mississippi Fresh
The SoPL program will be crucial to equipping BIPOC communities with tools necessary to build collective power to build sustainable, local, worker-owned food systems to address health inequities, food insecurity, and poverty reduction. This training will be even more significant as we enter an era where farm and food policy will potentially be more regressive and in favor of wealthy interests as opposed to impoverished citizens.