Tawanna Morgan: DIRECTORY

Attorney Tawanna K. Morgan, began her legal career in 2008 with The Davis Bozeman Law Firm, after receiving her juris doctorate from the Georgia State University College of Law. Morgan later obtained a Master’s degree in public policy and in 2015 founded the MA'AT LAW_Practice of Tawanna Morgan LLC, a firm which seeks to establish order in the midst of the social disorder created by criminal and civil legal systems by humanizing clients and making sure they are truly seen for their personhood and not just perceived behaviors. Morgan later obtained a Master’s in criminal justice with an emphasis in public administration, with the desire to extend her advocacy into the classroom, as she wants to ensure that all students are able to “be seen.”

Morgan believes that many criminal justice practitioners work in a singular-perspective vacuum, ignorant to the holistic impact that their work, actions and policies may have on the community-at-large. To this end, she strives to make her classroom a place to educate students in a manner that critically challenges the status-quo mindset and encourages multi-dimensional thought. Specifically, Morgan desires to create change-agents by helping students realize that the criminal justice system is not inherently moral or practical, yet practitioners must understand how their own definitions of justice and the interpretation, application and enforcement of related policy informs how the criminal justice system affects various social paradigms. It is Morgan’s objective, as was her graduate alma mater, the GSU Andrew Young School of Policy Studies’, to give her students the “knowledge and skills that many key decision-makers lack, yet are needed to interpret adequately the full social, political, economic, and technical dimensions of the policy issues they must consider.”