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Using the Law to Help Shape Public Policy - Jamelia N. Morgan

Title: Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law 

Tenured: Yes

Age: 38

Education: B.A., political science, Stanford University; M.A., sociology, Stanford University; and J.D., Yale Law School  

Career mentors: Amna Akbar, The Ohio State University; Guy-Uriel Charles, Harvard Law School; and Devon Carbado, UCLA.

Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Grow where you’re planted.”

By the time she turned 9 years old, Jamelia N. Morgan was certain that she wanted to be a lawyer. As a child, there were no shortages of Black lawyers within her reach.

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