Tahir Duckett is the executive director of the Center for Innovations in Community Safety at Georgetown Law, where he is also an adjunct professor.

He was previously an attorney at Relman Colfax, a nationally renowned civil rights law firm specializing in discriminatory policing, housing, lending, employment, education, and public accommodation. He was also a founding executive committee member of Law For Black Lives-DC, an organization providing legal and policy support to the Movement for Black Lives in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

Tahir has published works in a variety of formats, including essays on policing in The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System (Macmillan, 2022) and on masculinity in the anthology Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World (Seal Press, 2019). His articles have also been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Huffington Post, among other outlets.

A magna cum laude graduate of Georgetown Law, he lives in Washington, DC with his wife Audrey and his daughter Imara.