The Bridge is managed by SCHR Public Policy Unit Director Tiffany Roberts, Senior Movement Policy Counsel Devin Franklin, and First Amendment Fellow Max Atchison.
Tiffany Roberts
Public Policy Director
Tiffany Williams Roberts is Director of the Public Policy Unit at Southern Center for Human Rights. She joined the organization in April 2018 as the Community Engagement & Movement Building Counsel. She has practiced criminal defense since 2008, first as a public defender with the Atlanta Judicial Circuit Public Defender and later as a solo practitioner. As a public defender, Tiffany represented hundreds of indigent clients facing felony prosecution and graduated from Gideon’s Promise trial advocacy training program. She expanded her private practice to include civil rights litigation for victims of police abuse.
Devin Franklin
Movement Policy Counsel
A native of Decatur, Ga., W. Devin Franklin is Movement Policy Counsel at the Southern Center for Human Rights. He joined SCHR in March 2022 after working as a Senior Assistant Public Defender at the Office of the Circuit Public Defender-Atlanta Judicial Circuit for over 12 years, zealously advocating on the behalf of nearly 1500 indigent, accused persons charged with felony offenses. Devin is a graduate of Gideon’s Promise trial advocacy training program for Public Defenders and currently serves as a faculty member for the organization’s Core 101 programming. Additionally, he is a recipient of the 2020 Gideon’s Promise Foot Soldier Award, an honor given in recognition of service to make equal justice a reality.
Max Atchison
First Amendment Fellow
Max Atchison is the First Amendment Fellow working within the Public Policy Unit to support the expansion and maintenance of protester representation infrastructure in Atlanta through the First Amendment Lawyer Bridge project. Max originally joined SCHR in March 2024 as a Bridge Fellow, sponsored by the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. He received his J.D. from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco in 2023.