After working several years in the engineering field having acquired a BS Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, Tawanna 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.  Attorney 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.  Attorney 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.”   

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A member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated since 1998, Tawanna Morgan strives to embody the sorority’s principles by promoting justice to those that are marginalized by economic, educational, and political systems.  Attorney 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 young scholars and future practitioners in a manner that critically challenges the status-quo mindset and encourages multi-dimensional thought. Specifically, Professor Morgan desires to create change-agents by helping students realize that America’s political and justice systems are not inherently moral or practical; instead it is up to practitioners to define justice for themselves and to consider how the interpretation, application and enforcement of related policy inform how these systems affect various social paradigms. 

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It is Professor Morgan’s objective, as was her graduate Alma-Mata, 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.”  It is Professor Morgan’s desire that she manifests within herself, and assist each of her students becoming, as described by Dr. Martin Luther King in his Feb. 4, 1968 sermon Drum Major Instinct, a "drum major for justice ... and for righteousness (because) all of the other shallow things [do] not matter," [as much as one’s] “service to community”.