Jonathan A Rapping is an American criminal defense attorney, founder and president of Gideon's Promise, professor of law at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, and visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School.
17 Facts About Jonathan Rapping
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Jonathan Rapping maintains a blog called Fulfilling the Promise: Insights to Forging a Path to Meaningful Justice Reform.
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At a young age, Jonathan Rapping went to demonstrations and protests with his mother, Elayne Jonathan Rapping, a community organizer, activist and professor in Pittsburgh.
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Jonathan Rapping's mother was particularly involved in the anti-war and women's movements.
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Friends of Jonathan Rapping's family were arrested and he admired the lawyers who worked to keep them out of jail.
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Jonathan Rapping attended Allderdice High School in Squirrel Hill, and graduated in 1984.
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People close to Jonathan Rapping convinced him that he would incur tremendous debt if he went to law school, so he worked as a research assistant with the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC for two years, following in the footsteps of his father, Leonard Jonathan Rapping, a well-known economist.
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Jonathan Rapping earned a scholarship to attend the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University where he earned a Master of Public Administration in 1992.
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Right after graduating from Princeton and still unfulfilled, Jonathan Rapping decided to attend George Washington University Law School.
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Jonathan Rapping helped raise her younger brother who ended up in prison.
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In 2007, Jonathan Rapping created the Southern Public Defender Training Center, subsequently renamed Gideon's Promise, along with his wife, Ilham Askia.
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Jonathan Rapping received a grant to help start the center from George Soros' Open Society Foundations.
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In 2014, Jonathan Rapping became the Director of Strategic Planning and Organizational Development for the Maryland Office of the Public Defender.
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Since 2007, Jonathan Rapping has been an associate professor at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School.
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Jonathan Rapping is a visiting associate professor of law at Harvard Law School.
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In 2009, Jonathan Rapping was selected as one of Harvard Law School's Wasserstein Public Interest Fellows in recognition of his contribution to the public interest legal arena.
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In 2013, Jonathan Rapping was the Public Interest Scholar in Residence at Touro Law Center.