Josie Duffy Rice Biography
Josie Duffy Rice is an American author and political pundit. She recently served as president of The Appeal, a journalism site focused on the criminal justice system. Duffy Rice also co-hosted the Justice in America podcast.
Josie Duffy Rice Age
Josie was born in 1987, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America. She is 37 years ild as of 2023.
Josie Duffy Rice Education
Duffy Rice obtained her bachelor’s degree in political science from Columbia University. She obtained her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School.
Josie Duffy Rice Family- Parents
Duffy Rice was born Josie Duffy, the eldest daughter of Eugene and Norrene Duffy, and was reared in Atlanta. She has one sister, bookstore owner Rosa Duffy. Her grandmother is Josie Johnson, a civil rights movement activist who organized significantly in Minneapolis.
Josie Duffy Rice Husband
Rice has been married to her husband journalist Zak Cheney-Rice since May 2016. They have two children together, a son (2017) and a daughter (2020). They reside in Atlanta.
Josie Duffy Rice Career
She worked as an executive assistant for a public defender organization in the Bronx right out of college, which affected her decision to go to law school. Duffy Rice preferred writing to legal practice and began working in policy and advocacy after law school. Duffy Rice’s work is on criminal justice issues such as police brutality and cash bail. Duffy Rice supports for police abolition and suggests that defunding police forces is one method toward that end. She appeared as a roundtable guest on The Daily Show to address this viewpoint, and she has also written about criminal justice issues for publications such as Slate, NPR, and Late Night with Seth Meyers. Duffy Rice previously worked as a strategist for the Fair Punishment Project.
She joined the Justice Collaborative in 2017, which hosted The Appeal, a website focused on policy, politics, and criminal justice. Duffy Rice was named president of The Appeal in 2019 and will serve until 2021. Rice also co-hosted the podcast Justice in America, which featured guest hosts Darnell Moore, Donovan X. Ramsey, Derecka Purnell, and Zak Cheney-Rice. The show addresses criminal justice issues such as mass incarceration. Ta-Nehisi Coates guest edited the September 2020 issue of Vanity Fair, which featured Duffy Rice. In 2021, Duffy Rice co-wrote the debut episode of Hulu’s anthology series The Premise.
In 2021, Duffy Rice joined the Crooked Media podcast What a Day as one of three rotating co-hosts for What a Day founder Gideon Resnick. On July 30, 2021, Duffy Rice and co-hosts Tre’vell Anderson and Priyanka Aribindi took over for departing host Akilah Hughes. Rice worked as a correspondent for Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines in 2022, where she investigated Tennessee’s harsh juvenile punishment laws.[24] Duffy Rice hosted and co-executive produced Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, a limited series podcast about an Alabama juvenile justice facility, in 2023.
Josie Duffy Rice Net Worth
Duffy has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.