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Jonathan A. Rapping is an American criminal defense attorney, founder and president of Gideon's Promise, and professor of law at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School and Harvard Law School. Rapping received the MacArthur "Genius" Award in 2014. Rapping regularly writes about issues related to criminal defense and the criminal justice system. He is a contributor for The Nation,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jonathan Rapping )〕 Talk Poverty,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jonathan Rapping Archives - Talk Poverty )〕 The National Association For Public Defense,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=jon.rapping - National Association for Public Defense )〕 and The Huffington Post.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jonathan Rapping )〕 He also maintains a blog called Fulfilling the Promise: Insights to Forging a Path to Meaningful Justice Reform.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jon Rapping )〕 ==Early life, family and education== Rapping grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At a young age, Rapping went to demonstrations and protests with his mother, Elayne Rapping, a community organizer, activist and professor in Pittsburgh. Rapping's mother was particularly involved in the anti-war and women’s movements. The experience of working with his activist mother taught Rapping about social justice, and trying to change things in the world that aren't fair or right.〔 Friends of Rapping's family were even arrested and he admired the lawyers who worked to keep them out of jail.〔 After witnessing social justice activism as a young person, Rapping aspired to be a criminal defense attorney at a young age.〔 Rapping attended Allderdice High School in Squirrel Hill, and graduated in 1984. After high school, Rapping attended the University of Chicago where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics ''cum laude''.〔 People close to 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, D.C. for two years,〔 following in the footsteps of his father, Leonard Rapping, a well-known economist. 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.〔 Right after graduating from Princeton and still unfulfilled, Rapping decided to attend George Washington University School of Law in Washington, D.C. After his first year of law school at GWU, Rapping interned with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where he found his calling.〔 He worked at PDS throughout law school.〔 While living in Washington, Rapping met and married his wife, Ilham Askia, who was teaching at an elementary school and then spent two years at a charter high school for court involved children.〔 Askia was born in Buffalo, New York and every man in her family has been a victim of the criminal justice system.〔 Askia's father went to Attica Correctional Facility when she was five years old. She helped raise her younger brother who ended up in prison.〔 Askia became a teacher to break the school-to-prison pipeline, but soon questioned how much of a difference she could make on the front end.〔 This led to her joining Rapping to start Gideon's Promise and, ultimately, to become the organization's Executive Director, where she advocates for attacking the pipeline on the back end. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jonathan Rapping」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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