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Josie Duffy Rice
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Rice in 2020
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Josie Duffy
1987 (age 37–38) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
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| Alma mater | Columbia University (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Employer | The Appeal (President) |
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Notable work
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Justice in America podcast |
| Spouse(s) |
Zak Cheney-Rice
(m. 2016) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Rosa Duffy (sister) |
Josie Duffy Rice is an American writer and speaker. She talks and writes a lot about fairness in the justice system. She used to be the president of The Appeal. This is a news website that focuses on criminal justice. Josie Duffy Rice also helped host a podcast called Justice in America. Her writings have even been mentioned by The New York Times.
Early Life and Learning
Josie Duffy Rice was born Josie Duffy. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the oldest daughter of Eugene and Norrene Duffy. Her sister, Rosa Duffy, owns a bookstore called For Keeps. Josie's grandmother is Josie Johnson. She was an important activist in the civil rights movement in Minneapolis. This movement worked for equal rights for all people.
Josie Duffy Rice went to Columbia University. She earned a degree in political science there. After college, she worked for a public defender in the Bronx. A public defender is a lawyer who helps people who cannot afford one. This job made her want to go to law school. She later earned her law degree from Harvard Law School. Josie Duffy Rice liked writing more than legal work. So, after law school, she started working on public policy and activism.
Her Work and Career
Josie Duffy Rice's work focuses on issues in the criminal justice system. She writes about topics like police brutality. This means when police use too much force. She also writes about cash bail. This is money someone pays to get out of jail before their trial.
Duffy Rice supports ideas like police abolition. This idea suggests that police departments should be replaced with other ways to keep communities safe. She also supports defunding police departments. This means moving money from police budgets to other community services. She has talked about these ideas on shows like The Daily Show. She has also shared her views on Slate, NPR, and Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Before, Duffy Rice worked at the Fair Punishment Project. She was a strategist there. In 2017, she joined the Justice Collaborative. This group ran The Appeal website. This site focused on policy, politics, and criminal justice. Josie Duffy Rice became the president of The Appeal in 2019. She held this role until 2021.
Josie Duffy Rice also co-hosted the podcast Justice in America. She hosted it with guests like Darnell Moore and Derecka Purnell. The show talked about criminal justice topics. One topic was mass incarceration. This means a very large number of people in prison.
In 2020, Duffy Rice's writing was in Vanity Fair magazine. The famous writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was a guest editor for that issue.
In 2021, Josie Duffy Rice helped write an episode for the Hulu TV show The Premise. Also in 2021, she joined the What a Day podcast from Crooked Media. She became one of three new co-hosts.
In 2022, Duffy Rice was a correspondent for the Al Jazeera show Fault Lines. She looked into strict sentencing laws for young people in Tennessee. In 2023, she hosted and helped produce a podcast called Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children. This podcast looked into a youth justice facility in Alabama.
Her Family Life
In May 2016, Josie Duffy married journalist Zak Cheney-Rice. They got married in Atlanta. It was the same place where her parents married 30 years before. They have two children together. Their son was born in 2017, and their daughter was born in 2020. They live in Atlanta.
Awards and Recognition
- 2020 - Fortune magazine, 40 Under 40
