Beyond the Courtroom: Legal Tools for Social Change
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Tawanna Morgan
Founder,
Ma’at Law – Practice of Tawanna Morgan, LLC
Attorney Tawanna K. Morgan transitioned from engineering into law, earning her J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law before beginning her career at The Davis Bozeman Law Firm, PC, where she practiced movement lawyering. She later earned Master’s degrees in Public Policy and Criminal Justice, founded MA’AT LAW – Practice of Tawanna Morgan, LLC, and expanded her vision of justice into academia. After teaching at Georgia Gwinnett College, she now serves at Clark Atlanta University as a member of the Pre-Law Scholar Program Committee. A proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., she follows in the footsteps of her Soror Barbara Jordan, guided by Jordan’s conviction that “The imperative is to define what is right and do it,” and strives to walk with the energy of MA’AT in advocacy and service.
About our Panelists...
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Charity Bruce
Director of Economic Justice,
Mississippi Center for Justice
Charity Bruce Sweet serves as the Director of MCJ’s Economic Justice campaign, overseeing the expungement and foreclosure prevention matters. She also assists pro se individuals involved in civil cases to understand and navigate the justice court system through the Justice Court Pilot Project. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Tougaloo College and her Juris Doctorate from Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Upon graduation, she returned to Mississippi to serve as a law clerk for the Honorable Denise S. Owens of the Hinds County Chancery Court. Charity has since received the Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project Pro Bono Award and the Community Service Award from the Magnolia Bar Association. She currently serves as a member of the Magnolia Bar Association, the Change Collective, and the MS Bar Leadership 2024 – 2025 cohort.
Shelia has more than 20 years of experience as an attorney working in a variety of industries across North Carolina. They include personal services, education, transportation, entertainment and media, arts, health and fitness, food services, and more.
Shelia Huggins
Attorney,
Shelia A. Huggins, PLLC
Julian Hill (he/they) is an assistant professor of law at Georgia State University College of Law. Hill is a teacher, lifelong learner, community organizer, artist, and attorney who knows that the world we deserve, though both possible and necessary, is one for which we must fight with radical love. His research focuses on how lawyers leverage corporate, local government, and contract law to build a solidarity economy that prioritizes people and the planet over profits.
Hill regularly advised worker cooperatives, collectives, nonprofits, and small businesses on various matters, including formation, governance, compliance, and contracts. They co-facilitated workshops, in English and Spanish, on worker cooperatives and the solidarity economy with Law 4 Black Lives, the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, Democracy at Work Institute, the New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives, and other community-based organizations. He has prepared and delivered testimony before the New York State Assembly and the New York City Council on issues facing worker cooperatives and small businesses.
Julian has an LL.M. in advocacy, with honors, from Georgetown University Law Center, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. in philosophy, with honors, from Northwestern University.
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