As a Senior Assistant District Attorney in the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office assigned to the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Unit (SAKI), Agatha Romanowski investigates and prosecutes these cases in DeKalb County. She collaborates with other State and County agencies regarding best practices and policy development for handling these challenging cases.

Ms. Romanowski graduated from Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School in 2010, but her career in prosecution began years before she became an attorney. While attending Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, she worked as an administrative assistant for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office and became a certified rape crisis counselor. After moving to Atlanta, Georgia, she continued her path in prosecution, working for the Newton County District Attorney’s Office as an Assistant District Attorney in the Special Victim’s Unit, where she handled all physical and sexual abuse of children, disabled adults, and elderly and dealt with all sexual assault crimes in the county. Ms. Romanowski then joined the Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Unit of the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office, handling intimate partner domestic violence and adult sexual assault cases, including domestic violence homicides.

 Ms. Romanowski assists and trains law enforcement officers, medical personnel, and crisis counselors in the field of sexual assault and helps to make sure survivors have a voice. Her career in prosecution has been dedicated to the most vulnerable in her community, ensuring that the survivors in her cases receive justice and all the services and help the community has to offer to make them whole again.