Atlanta Legacy Project
We all want to leave a legacy for our families, but many people find the estate planning process confusing, intimidating, or simply overwhelming.
Today, more than ever, taking steps to protect what you’ve built matters. The Atlanta Legacy Project was created to help you begin—with clarity, confidence, and intention.
Through a two-part educational workshop series, the Atlanta Legacy Project makes legacy planning more understandable and accessible for property owners and their families.
Join us to learn how to be the link in your family’s legacy.
Register for a workshop below.
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A Different Approach
I founded the Atlanta Legacy Project to offer a clear starting point for legacy planning—focused on education and preparation.
Our workshop series introduces key concepts and considerations to understand before meeting with an attorney or other professionals, so you can approach planning with clarity, confidence, and intention.
You’ll explore topics such as commonly used estate planning terms, areas that often cause confusion for families, and how property ownership can impact your legacy—all explained in language that’s easy to understand.
Legacy planning is a process, and there is a lot to consider. Let’s get started—together.
Cheryl Turner
Founder, Atlanta Legacy Project
Workshops are for educational purposes only. The information given is not legal advice, and your attendance at a workshop does not create an attorney-client relationship.
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A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Cheryl F. Turner is a seasoned attorney committed to community service and expanding opportunities for others.
She is a graduate of Emory College and Emory University School of Law. As an active alumna, Cheryl has been a member of several university boards and also spearheaded the creation of the Dr. Rudolph Byrd Memorial Scholarship, an endowed scholarship benefiting Emory college students.
Cheryl is proud to be an alumna of Thomas, Kennedy, Sampson & Tompkins LLP, Georgia’s oldest African American law firm. She spent most of her career at The Coca-Cola Company providing legal support for well-known beverage brands and community-focused marketing teams. While there, she worked on innovative marketing programs and is most proud of her work on programs that delivered more than $1,000,000 in scholarships to diverse communities.
A dedicated member of the Gate City Bar Association, Georgia’s oldest African American bar association, Cheryl has served in various executive board positions and was honored to serve as its president in 2016. She is also the founder of the Gate City Bar Summer Associate Program, which has provided summer legal experiences for deserving law students for more than fifteen years and awarded almost $200,000 in scholarships.
Her service to the Atlanta community includes serving as the president of the Summerhill neighborhood association, where she worked to ensure legacy residents could remain in their homes during an ongoing period of rapid redevelopment and gentrification.
An advocate for civic engagement, she has also organized and led voter education forums for key elections, worked to protect citizens’ right to vote, and is a board member with the Atlanta Civic Circle, a non-partisan, non-profit journalism platform covering critical issues in Atlanta.