Morgan Williams is responsible for leading NFHA’s strategic and tactical legal initiatives and affairs. Morgan directs NFHA’s efforts to pursue pioneering litigation under the federal Fair Housing Act, often utilizing testing-based evidence and working in partnership with its network of local fair housing centers, and coordinates NFHA’s actions to file amicus briefs to promote sound fair housing jurisprudence. Morgan provides training and technical support to local fair housing centers across the country on investigation and enforcement strategies, as well as training to housing providers and servicers on a range of complicated and emerging topics. Morgan also assists with NFHA’s federal public policy advocacy, in coordination with legislative offices and federal agencies, and assists local advocates regarding state and local legislative matters.



Previously, Morgan was General Counsel of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, managing fair housing enforcement in post-Katrina New Orleans and throughout Louisiana and southern Mississippi. Morgan graduated with a B.A. in Environmental Studies at Oberlin College and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Tulane Law School. He has served on the adjunct faculty at American Law School and Loyola Law School of New Orleans. Morgan received the Equal Justice Works Fellowship, the Effective Leadership Fellowship from the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, and the Rockefeller Foundation Redevelopment Fellowship from the Center for Urban Redevelopment Excellence at the University of Pennsylvania.