Josie Duffy Rice
Josie Duffy Rice is a journalist, writer, law school graduate, and podcast host whose work is primarily focused on prosecutors, prisons, and other criminal justice issues.
She is the host of the podcast UnReformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, released in January 2023, which she also co-wrote. In addition, she co-hosts What a Day, Crooked Media’s daily news podcast, two days a week. She is also the creator and co-host of the podcast Justice in America. Until May 2021, she was President of The Appeal, a news publication that publishes original journalism about the criminal justice system.
Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Slate, among others.
Josie’s a graduate of Harvard Law School and received her bachelor’s degree from Columbia University. She is currently a Type Media Fellow, and was previously a 2020 New America Fellow and a Civic Media Fellow at University of Southern California’s Annenberg Innovation Lab. She is writing a book and lives in Atlanta with her husband and two children.
Rhiannon Hamam
Rhiannon Hamam was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, and is a graduate of Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas School of Law. While at Texas Law, Rhiannon was a co-founder of GRITS, the student-run “Getting Radical in the South” conference. After graduating from law school, Rhiannon worked as a public defender with the Starr County Regional Public Defender based in Rio Grande City, Texas, on the border with Mexico. Later, she moved to Austin and worked as appointed criminal defense counsel in private practice, as a mitigation specialist for death-sentenced individuals in state habeas proceedings, and again as a public defender at the Travis County Public Defender’s Office. Currently, Rhiannon is the Supervising Attorney in the Mithoff Pro Bono Program at Texas Law. She additionally participates in community organizing efforts to fight for Palestinian liberation. Rhiannon is a co-host of “5-4,” a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.