Previous positions include; the executive director of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, assistant dean of students at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, and director of the American Indian Educational Opportunity Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He founded Winds of Change and The American Indian Graduate, magazine publications of AISES and AIGC respectively.  Hill holds two honorary doctorates from Clarkson University (1996) and Cumberland College (1994). Current board appointments include Environmental Defense, the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, and the University of Colorado Graduate School Advisory Board.