Josie Duffy Rice, Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow, is president of the Appeal, a news publication that publishes original journalism about the criminal justice system. As a journalist, Duffy Rice has primarily focused on prosecutors, prisons, and other criminal justice issues. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Slate, among others. She is working on a book about the fundamental impulses and instinctive emotions that drive mass incarceration. Duffy Rice also co-hosts the podcast “Justice in America,” which will begin its third season in fall of 2019. She is a 2019 Type Media Fellow, and a 2019 Civic Media Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Innovation Lab. A graduate of Harvard Law School, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Select Work:
- Justice In America: Juvenile Justice: In an episode of her podcast, Josie interviews Abd’Allah Lateef, the Pennsylvania coordinator for the Incarcerated Children’s Advocacy Network. (The Appeal, 2019)
- How to Punish Voters: A piece on local prosecutors pursuing voter fraud charges in order to suppress black turnout. (New York Times, 2018)
- The Gospel According to Pusha T: On Whitney Houston and the role the drug addict plays in much of rap music. (The Atlantic, 2018)