GEORGIA STATE NEWS HUB — It’s typical for one’s career to turn out different than expected, but it’s less common for that shift to be caused by identifying systemic problems and dedicating a career to becoming a solution. That’s what Rebekah Cohen Morris (J.D. ’23) is doing. The former teacher and current Doraville City Council member is working to make a difference. “I had not planned to become a teacher or a lawyer,” she said. “I just wanted to move to Spain and become a professor and figured I need to teach in the states for a few years to start.” Cohen Morris got her teaching start at a high school in Gwinnett County fresh out of college. It was when she first realized the disparities caused by redistricting and reflected how school attendance zones and the impacts on housing segregation impacted her own upbringing growing up in New York City and Philadelphia. Cohen Morris feels she benefited from living in diverse communities. That’s why she chose for her family to settle down along Buford Highway, a historically diverse community. “I love that it feels like a place where we’re all trying to make it together and figure out our place and how we fit into society,” she said.