Laura Warren Hill

Laura Warren Hill currently serves as an Associate Professor of Human Development in the College of Community and Public Affairs at Binghamton University. She is the author of Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, NY, 1940-1970, the co-editor of The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America, and the author of several articles on Malcolm X’s relationship with the Rochester, NY community. Dr. Hill is a co-founder of the Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium (UNY-PRC) which seeks to create greater accountability in policing through research and action in upstate New York communities. Her current project examines the life and times of Betty Tyson, a Rochester woman who spent 25 years in New York’s Bedford Hills for a murder she did not commit before she was exonerated and released in 1998.