Jonathan Rapping

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.{{cite web|last1=Rosen|first1=Karen|title=Transforming Public Defense|url=http://atlantatrend.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=870&catid=40|publisher=Atlanta Trend|access-date=29 May 2015}} 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 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.{{cite web|last1=Branddolph|first1=Adam|title=Professor, lawyer with Pittsburgh ties earn MacArthur 'genius grants' |url=http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/6811526-74/foundation-hayes-macarthur#axzz3bVIhvdvN|website=triblive.com|access-date=29 May 2015}} 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. Rapping's sister, Alison Rapping has spent her career in the non-profit sector, and is widely considered a leader in that realm. Both siblings attribute their commitment to social justice to the influence of their parents.

Right after graduating from Princeton and still unfulfilled, Rapping decided to attend George Washington University Law School. 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.{{dead link|date=April 2021 |fix-attempted=yes }} Askia was born in Buffalo, New York and every man in her family has been a subject 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.{{dead link|date=April 2021 |fix-attempted=yes }} 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.{{dead link|date=April 2021 |fix-attempted=yes }} 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.{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0IGzOEHuaQ|title=Gideon's Promise receives 2015 MLK, Jr. Community Service Award|date=29 January 2015|work=YouTube|access-date=20 October 2015}}

After law school, Rapping worked as a staff attorney for The Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (1995–2004), where he served his final three years as training director.{{cite web|title=MacArthur Fellows / Meet the Class of 2014|url=http://www.macfound.org/fellows/925/|website=macfound.org|publisher=MacArthur Foundation|access-date=22 January 2015}} From 2004-2006, Rapping was the training director for the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council.

From 2006-2007, he served as training chief for the New Orleans Office of the Public Defender. In recognition of his work in New Orleans to rebuild the public defender system post-Hurricane Katrina, he was a co-recipient of the Lincoln Leadership Award, given by Kentucky's Department of Public Advocacy to honor leadership in national efforts to improve indigent defense.

In 2007, Rapping created the Southern Public Defender Training Center, subsequently renamed Gideon's Promise, along with his wife, Ilham Askia. Named after the landmark 1963 Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, Gideon's Promise teaches public defenders to work more effectively within the judicial system by providing coaching, training, and professional development as well as a supportive network of peers and mentors from around the country. Rapping received a grant to help start the center from George Soros' Open Society Foundations.{{cite web|title=Over $1 Million Awarded to Visionary Leaders in Criminal Justice|url=http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/press-releases/over-1-million-awarded-visionary-leaders-criminal-justice|publisher=Open Society Foundations}}

Since its founding, the organization has grown from a single training program for sixteen attorneys in two offices in Georgia and Louisiana, to a multi-tiered enterprise with over 300 participants in more than 35 offices across 15 mostly Southern states. An initial three-year "Core" program for new public defenders has since expanded into a comprehensive model that includes programs for graduates of the initial Core program as they continue their development, public defender leaders, trainers and supervisors, and law students. Further, the organization is unique in that it intervenes at the trial stage, rather than after conviction, where challenges to criminal injustice often take place.

In 2013, HBO Films produced a documentary called Gideon's Army, based in part on the Gideon's Promise program and highlighting participants in the program.

Gideon's Promise has won numerous awards including Emory University's 2014 Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award,{{cite web|url=http://news.emory.edu/stories/2015/01/er_king_week_events/campus.html|title=Emory honors MLK legacy with service, awards, special events|work=emory.edu|date=14 January 2015|access-date=20 October 2015}} the Southern Center for Human Rights' 2013 Gideon's Promise Award,{{cite web|url=https://www.schr.org/action/resources/schr_to_honor_justice_harold_clarke_with_lifetime_achievement_award|title=SCHR to Honor Justice Harold Clarke with Lifetime Achievement Award|work=schr.org|access-date=20 October 2015|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305214615/https://www.schr.org/action/resources/schr_to_honor_justice_harold_clarke_with_lifetime_achievement_award|url-status=dead}} The National Association of Sentencing Advocates and Mitigation Specialists 2013 Sentencing Project Award, and the American College of Trail Lawyers' 2011 Emil Gumpert Award.

In 2014, Rapping became the Director of Strategic Planning and Organizational Development for the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. In 2014, Rapping earned a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Fellow."{{cite web|last1=Miller|first1=Michelle|title=Atlanta lawyer Jonathan Rapping wins MacArthur 'genius grant'|url=http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/atlanta-lawyer-jonathan-rapping-wins-macarthur-gen/nhN5M/|website=ajc.com|publisher=AJC|access-date=22 January 2015}}

Since 2007, Rapping has also been an associate professor at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School. In 2015 he was promoted to full Professor. Rapping is also a visiting associate professor of law at Harvard Law School.{{cite web|title=Harvard Bio for Rapping|url=http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/11243/Rapping|website=harvard.edu|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=22 January 2015|archive-date=22 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122060314/http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/11243/Rapping|url-status=dead}} In 2009, 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. In 2013, Rapping was the Public Interest Scholar in Residence at Touro Law Center.{{cite web|last1=Touro Law Center|title=Distinguished Public Interest Lawyer in Residence Program|url=http://law.touro.edu/AboutTouroLaw/?pageid=379#.VBoXOvldV8E|access-date=17 September 2014}}

• Gideon's Army, Award-winning HBO documentary{{cite web |url=http://gideonsarmythefilm.com/ |title=Gideon's Army |publisher=Gideonsarmythefilm.com |access-date=2015-10-20 |archive-date=2015-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905154209/http://gideonsarmythefilm.com/ |url-status=dead }}
• Defending Gideon, Documentary, The Constitution Project{{cite web|url=http://www.constitutionproject.org/publications-resources/defending-gideon/ |title=Defending Gideon |publisher=The Constitution Project |date=1963-03-18 |access-date=2015-10-20}}
• The New York Times Op-Doc, True Believers in Justice{{cite news|author=Dawn Porter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000002022363/true-believers-in-justice.html |title=True Believers in Justice - Video |work=The New York Times |date=24 January 2013 |access-date=2015-10-20}}
• Meet Gideon's Promise (from the filming of Gideon's Army){{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLTx8rlcqWw|title=Meet Gideon's Promise, the organization behind Gideon's Army|date=21 May 2014|work=YouTube|access-date=20 October 2015}}

• Building a new generation of public defenders | Jonathan Rapping | TEDxAtlanta{{Citation|title = Building a new generation of public defenders {{!}} Jonathan Rapping {{!}} TEDxAtlanta|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-j20aGs6uU|date = 2015-05-08|access-date = 2016-01-15}}
• Touro Law 2013 Public Interest Lawyer in Residence Public Speech{{Citation|title = Jonathan Rapping - Touro Law - 2013 Public Interest Lawyer in Residence - Public Speech|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IgR_jBnt_E|date = 2013-10-16|access-date = 2016-01-15}}
• Keynote Address, 2014 Atlanta Bar Assn Celebrating Service Luncheon{{Cite web|title = Video of Jonathan Rapping Speech from 2014 Celebrating Service Luncheon - Atlanta Bar Association|url = http://www.atlantabar.org/news/200634/Video-of-Jonathan-Rapping-Speech-from-2014-Celebrating-Service-Luncheon.htm|website = www.atlantabar.org|access-date = 2016-01-15|archive-date = 2015-09-06|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150906054518/http://www.atlantabar.org/news/200634/Video-of-Jonathan-Rapping-Speech-from-2014-Celebrating-Service-Luncheon.htm|url-status = dead}}

• Does Equal Justice For All Include the Poor? NPR's Tell Me More{{Citation|title = Does Equal Justice For All Include The Poor? - Jon Rapping on NPR's Tell Me More|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2g8Wnsi2Ho|date = 2013-11-06|access-date = 2016-01-15}}
• Criminalization of Poverty, Kojo Nnamdi Show{{Cite web|title = Criminalization Of Poverty - The Kojo Nnamdi Show|url = http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2014-09-22/criminalization-poverty|website = The Kojo Nnamdi Show|access-date = 2016-01-15|language = en-US}}
• Public Defenders and the Legacy of Gideon v. Wainwright Kojo Nnamdi Show{{Cite web|title = Public Defenders And The Legacy Of Gideon Vs. Wainwright - The Kojo Nnamdi Show|url = http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2013-04-17/public-defenders-and-legacy-gideon-vs-wainwright|website = The Kojo Nnamdi Show|access-date = 2016-01-15|language = en-US}}

• Essence Magazine, Defense Mode, April 2015{{Cite web|title = Defense Mode: Gideon's Promise Aims To Change The Face of Criminal Justice|url = http://www.essence.com/2015/03/26/defense-mode-gideons-promise-aims-change-face-criminal-justice|website = Essence.com|access-date = 2016-01-15}}
• University of Chicago Magazine, Criminal Injustice, Summer 2015{{Cite web|title = Criminal injustice {{!}} The University of Chicago Magazine|url = http://mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-society/criminal-injustice|website = mag.uchicago.edu|access-date = 2016-01-15}}
• GW Magazine, Promise Keeper, Summer 2015{{Cite web|title = Promise Keeper {{!}} GW Magazine {{!}} The George Washington University|url = http://magazine.gwu.edu/promise-keeper|website = magazine.gwu.edu|access-date = 2016-01-15|archive-date = 2016-01-20|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160120203604/http://magazine.gwu.edu/promise-keeper|url-status = dead}}
• 2015 Twenty People to Watch, Creative Loafing{{Cite web|title = Jonathan Rapping: The defender|url = https://creativeloafing.com/content-232647-20-people-to-watch---jonathan-rapping-the|website = Creative Loafing Atlanta|access-date = 2016-01-15}}
• People Making a Difference, Christian Science Monitor, February 2015{{Cite news|title = Jonathan Rapping helps give poor and minority Americans a strong defense in court|url = http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2015/0219/Jonathan-Rapping-helps-give-poor-and-minority-Americans-a-strong-defense-in-court|newspaper = Christian Science Monitor|access-date = 2016-01-15|issn = 0882-7729|first = Patrik|last = Jonsson}}
• Atlanta Trend, Executive Profile{{Cite web|title = Jonathan Rapping {{!}} Executive Profile {{!}} ATLANTA TREND|url = http://atlantatrend.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=870&catid=40|website = atlantatrend.org|access-date = 2016-01-15}}

• Grooming Tomorrow's Change Agents: The Role of Law Schools in Helping to Create a Just Society, 12 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 465 (2015).{{cite journal|ssrn=2621702|title=Grooming Tomorrow's Change Agents: The Role of Law Schools in Helping to Create a Just Society|journal=Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law|volume=12|issue=465|date=22 June 2015|last1=Rapping|first1=Jonathan}}
• The Revolution Will Be Televised: Popular Culture and the American Criminal Justice Narrative, 41 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 5 (2015).{{cite journal|last1=Rapping|first1=Jonathan|title=The Revolution Will Be Televised: Popular Culture and the American Criminal Justice Narrative|ssrn=2567795|date=20 February 2015|journal=New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement}}
• Retuning Gideon's Trumpet: Telling the Story in the Context of Today's Criminal-Justice Crisis, 92 Tex. L. Rev. 1225 (2014).{{cite journal|ssrn=2439431|title=Retuning Gideon's Trumpet: Retelling the Story in the Context of Today's Criminal Justice Crisis|journal=Texas Law Review|volume=92|issue=1225|date=20 May 2014|last1=Rapping|first1=Jonathan}}
• Reclaiming Our Rightful Place: Reviving the Hero Image of the Public Defender, 99 Iowa L. Rev. 1893 (2014).{{cite journal|ssrn=2466200|title=Reclaiming Our Rightful Place: Reviving the Hero Image of the Public Defender|journal=Iowa Law Review|volume=99|date=14 July 2014 |last1=Rapping |first1=Jonathan }}
• What Does A Client Have the Right to Demand?, 10 Tenn. J.L. & Pol'y 113 (2014).{{cite web|url=https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=10+Tenn.+J.+L.+%26+Pol%27y+113&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=30be9e9311e865e5795c94859cbde859|title=ESSENTIALS TO JUSTICE: A RIGHT TO COUNSEL SYMPOSIUM: WHAT DOES A CLIENT HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEMAND? *|work=lexisnexis.com|access-date=20 October 2015|archive-date=29 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529001726/https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=10+Tenn.+J.+L.+%26+Pol%27y+113&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=30be9e9311e865e5795c94859cbde859|url-status=dead}}
• The Role of the Defender in A Racially Disparate System, Champion, July 2013, at 50.
• Implicitly Unjust: How Defenders Can Affect Systemic Racist Assumptions, 16 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y 999, 1000 (2013).{{cite journal|ssrn=2380002|title=Implicitly Unjust: How Defenders Can Affect Systemic Racist Assumptions|journal=Legislation and Public Policy|volume=16|issue=999|date=16 January 2014 |last1=Rapping |first1=Jonathan }}
• Who's Guarding the Henhouse? How the American Prosecutor Came to Devour Those He Is Sworn to Protect, 51 Washburn L.J. 513, 514 (2012).{{cite journal|ssrn=2082392|title=Who's Guarding the Henhouse? How the American Prosecutor Came to Devour Those He is Sworn to Protect|journal=Washburn Law Journal|volume=51|date=10 June 2012 |last1=Rapping |first1=Jonathan }}
• Redefining Success As A Public Defender: A Rallying Cry for Those Most Committed to Gideon's Promise, Champion, June 2012, at 30.{{cite journal|ssrn=2128829|title=Redefining Success as a Public Defender: A Rallying Cry for Those Most Committed to Gideon's Promise|journal=The Champion, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers|date=5 June 2012 }}
• Street Crimes, Stress, and Suggestion: Helping the Jury See What the Witness Did Not, Champion, June 2011, at 22, 23.{{cite journal|ssrn=2082421|title=Street Crimes, Stress, and Suggestion: Helping the Jury See What the Witness Did Not|journal=The Champion|date=June 2011 }}
• National Crisis, National Neglect: Realizing Justice Through Transformative Change, 13 U. Pa. J.L. & Soc. Change 331 (2010).{{cite journal|ssrn=1745482|title=National Crisis, National Neglect: Realizing Justice Through Transformative Change|journal=Journal of Law and Social Change|volume=13|page=331|date=22 February 2010 }}
• Evidence Blocking: How the Defense Can Define the Legal Landscape at Trial, 33 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 1, 1 (2009).{{cite journal|ssrn=1629190|title=Evidence Blocking: How the Defense Can Define the Legal Landscape at Trial|journal=American Journal of Trial Advocacy|volume=33|page=1|date=23 June 2010 }}
• You Can't Build on Shaky Ground: Laying the Foundation for Indigent Defense Reform Through Values-Based Recruitment, Training, and Mentoring, 3 Harv. L. & Pol'y Rev. 161 (2009).{{cite journal|ssrn=1349382|title=You Can't Build on Shaky Ground: Laying the Foundation for Indigent Defense Reform through Values-Based Recruitment, Training, and Mentoring|journal=Harvard Law and Policy Review, Forthcoming|date=25 February 2009 }}
• A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: Persuasion Through the Use of Visual Effects At Trial, The Advocate, Journal of Criminal Justice Education and Research, Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy, Vol. 31, Issue No. 4, Oct. 2009.{{cite journal |url=http://apps.dpa.ky.gov/library/advocate/pdf/2009/Oct09%20Advo.pdf |journal=The Advocate |title=A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words : Persuasion Through the Use of Visual Effects at Trial |volume=31 |date=October 2009 |publisher=Apps.dpa.ky.gov |access-date=2015-10-20 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234827/http://apps.dpa.ky.gov/library/advocate/pdf/2009/Oct09%20Advo.pdf |url-status=dead }}
• Directing the Winds of Change: Using Organizational Culture to Reform Indigent Defense, 9 Loy. J. Pub. Int. L 177 (2008).{{cite journal|last1=Rapping|first1=Jonathan|title=Directing the Winds of Change: Using Organizational Culture to Reform Indigent Defense|ssrn=1349358|journal=Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law|volume=9|page=177|date=25 February 2009 }}
• Building A Relationship With Your Client, The Advocate, Journal of Criminal Justice Education and Research, Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy, Vol. 27, Issue No. 6, Nov. 2005.{{cite journal |url=http://apps.dpa.ky.gov/library/advocate/pdf/2005/adv112005.pdf |journal=The Advocate |title=Building a Relationship with your Client : Juvenile Sexual Offenders : Should There Be Changes in the Laws? |volume=27 |date=November 2005 |publisher=Apps.dpa.ky.gov |access-date=2015-10-20 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235310/http://apps.dpa.ky.gov/library/advocate/pdf/2005/adv112005.pdf |url-status=dead }}

• The Limitation of Policy Fixes: Real Criminal Justice Reform Requires That We Change How We Think About Justice (personal blog), June 3, 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.jonrapping.com/#!THE-LIMITATION-OF-POLICY-FIXES-REAL-CRIMINAL-JUSTICE-REFORM-REQUIRES-THAT-WE-CHANGE-HOW-WE-THINK-ABOUT-JUSTICE/c1tye/556f275c0cf24a19837a0fbf|title=Jon Rapping|access-date=20 October 2015|archive-date=11 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151111221343/http://www.jonrapping.com/#!THE-LIMITATION-OF-POLICY-FIXES-REAL-CRIMINAL-JUSTICE-REFORM-REQUIRES-THAT-WE-CHANGE-HOW-WE-THINK-ABOUT-JUSTICE/c1tye/556f275c0cf24a19837a0fbf|url-status=dead}}
• Gideon's Promise Works to Ensure Equal Justice For All, Nonprofit Voice, Georgia Center For Nonprofits, May 21, 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.gcn.org/blog/Nonprofit-Voice/Nonprofit-Voice-Gideons-Promise-works-to-ensure-equal-justice-for-all|title=Nonprofit Voice - Gideon's Promise works to ensure equal justice for all - The Georgia Center For Nonprofits|work=gcn.org|date=21 May 2015|access-date=20 October 2015|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924021101/http://www.gcn.org/blog/Nonprofit-Voice/Nonprofit-Voice-Gideons-Promise-works-to-ensure-equal-justice-for-all|url-status=dead}}
• The Other Baltimore Story: Ronald Hammond and "Routine Injustice,' Talk Poverty, May 15, 2015.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.thenation.com/article/207425/other-baltimore-story-ronald-hammond-and-routine-injustice|title=The Other Baltimore Story: Ronald Hammond and 'Routine Injustice'|magazine=The Nation|date=15 May 2015|access-date=20 October 2015|last1=Rapping|first1=Jonathan}}
• Challenging Judge Centered Culture, Fulfilling the Promise: Insights to Forging a Path to Meaningful Justice Reform (personal blog), April 6, 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.jonrapping.com/#!Challenging-JudgeCentered-Culture/c1tye/551c19ce0cf21933cd2bccad|title=Jon Rapping|access-date=20 October 2015|archive-date=11 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151111221343/http://www.jonrapping.com/#!Challenging-JudgeCentered-Culture/c1tye/551c19ce0cf21933cd2bccad|url-status=dead}}
• Mississippi Judge Bars Public Defenders From Representing Clients, Talk Poverty, March 20, 2015.{{cite web|url=http://talkpoverty.org/2015/03/20/public-defenders-mississippi/|title=Mississippi Judge Bars Public Defenders from Representing Clients|work=Talk Poverty|date=20 March 2015|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• Indigent Defense is History, Fulfilling the Promise: Insights to Forging a Path to Meaningful Justice Reform (personal blog), March 18, 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.jonrapping.com/#!Indigent-Defense-is-History/c1tye/550998a30cf2393ebb2ce021|title=Jon Rapping|access-date=20 October 2015|archive-date=11 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151111221343/http://www.jonrapping.com/#!Indigent-Defense-is-History/c1tye/550998a30cf2393ebb2ce021|url-status=dead}}
• Forgive Yourself Without Becoming Complacent; Dream Without Becoming Discouraged, National Association of Public Defense, February 9, 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.publicdefenders.us/?q=node/691|title=Forgive Yourself Without Becoming Complacent; Dream Without Becoming Discouraged|work=publicdefenders.us|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• Continuing the March of the Civil Rights Warriors in Selma, Talk Poverty, February 5, 2015.{{cite web|url=http://talkpoverty.org/2015/02/04/continuing-march-civil-rights-selma/|title=Continuing the March of the Civil Rights Warriors in Selma|work=Talk Poverty|date=4 February 2015|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• It's Not Just the Cops, The Nation, January 12, 2015.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.thenation.com/article/194633/its-not-just-cops|title=It's Not Just the Cops|magazine=The Nation|date=12 January 2015|access-date=20 October 2015|last1=Rapping|first1=Jonathan}}
• Need a Lawyer? Sell Everything, Talk Poverty, December 15, 2014.{{cite web|url=http://talkpoverty.org/2014/12/15/need-lawyer-sell-everything/|title=Need a Lawyer? Sell Everything - Talk Poverty|work=Talk Poverty|date=15 December 2014|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• Ferguson and Staten Island: In Case Anyone Doubted the Public Needs Defending…, National Association of Public Defense, December 10, 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.publicdefenders.us/?q=node/638|title=Ferguson and Staten Island: In case anyone doubted the public needs defending…|work=publicdefenders.us|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• One of the Most Important Civil and Human Rights Battles of Our Time, Talk Poverty, November 10, 2014.{{cite web|url=http://talkpoverty.org/2014/11/10/human-rights-battles-of-our-time/|title=Civil and Human Rights Battles of Our Time|work=Talk Poverty|date=10 November 2014|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• Reviving the Hero Image of the Public Defender By Changing the Story of Our Clients, National Association of Public Defense, July 21, 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.publicdefenders.us/?q=node/481|title=Reviving the Hero Image of the Public Defender by Changing the Story of Our Clients|work=publicdefenders.us|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• To All the Patriots Out There, and Especially Our Public Defenders, National Association of Public Defense, July 4, 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.publicdefenders.us/?q=node/474|title=To All the Patriots Out There, and Especially Our Public Defenders|work=publicdefenders.us|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• Gideon's Orchestra: It's Time For the Encore, National Association of Public Defense, May 27, 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.publicdefenders.us/?q=node/425|title=Gideon's Orchestra: It Is Time For the Encore|work=publicdefenders.us|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• The Special Few, National Association of Public Defense, April 9, 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.publicdefenders.us/?q=node/364|title=The Special Few|work=publicdefenders.us|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• Can We Be Committed To Both the Client and the Cause? Promoting Racial Justice Through Individual Representation, National Association for Public Defense, January 20, 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.publicdefenders.us/?q=node/179 |title=Can We Be Committed to Both the Client and the Cause? Promoting Racial Justice Through Individual Representation | National Association for Public Defense |publisher=Publicdefenders.us |date=2014-01-20 |access-date=2015-10-20}}
• You Can't Get Upstream Without Swimming Against the Current, National Association for Public Defense, December 9, 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.publicdefenders.us/?q=node/118|title=You Can't Get Upstream Without Swimming Against the Current|work=publicdefenders.us|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• Who Will Heal the Public Defenders, National Association for Public Defense, October 7, 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.publicdefenders.us/?q=node/15|title=Who Will Heal the Public Defenders?|work=publicdefenders.us|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• The Role of the Defender in a Racially Disparate System, The Champion, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (July 2103).{{cite web|url=http://www.nacdl.org/champion/racialdisparities/|title=Champion - Racial Disparities|work=nacdl.org|access-date=20 October 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071737/http://www.nacdl.org/champion/racialdisparities/|url-status=dead}}
• The dog sniff cases: Amidst a Sigh of Relief, Additional Burden for Public Defenders," Justice Watch, Alliance For Justice, March 28, 2013.{{cite web|url=http://afjjusticewatch.blogspot.com/2013/03/guest-post-dog-sniff-cases-amidst-sigh.html|title=Justice Watch: GUEST POST: The dog sniff cases: Amidst a sigh of relief, additional burden for public defenders|work=afjjusticewatch.blogspot.com|date=28 March 2013|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• A Promise Worth Keeping, Huffington Post, March 18, 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-rapping/gideon-v-wainwright_b_2902064.html|title=A Promise Worth Keeping: Restoring Fairness to America's Justice System|work=The Huffington Post|date=18 March 2013|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• Book Review: "Case Analysis: Winning Hard Cases Against the Odds," James McComas, The Champion, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (April 2012).{{cite web|url=http://www.nacdl.org/Champion.aspx?id=24482 |title=Champion - Book Review: Case Analysis: Winning Hard Cases Against the Odds |publisher=Nacdl.org |access-date=2015-10-20}}
• Should Courts Let Experts Testify on Eyewitness Identifications? Congressional Quarterly Researcher, October 14, 2011
• Don't Gut Public Defenders, Savannah Times, February 21, 2009

• 2014 MacArthur Fellow{{cite web|url=http://www.macfound.org/fellows/925/|title=Jonathan Rapping|work=macfound.org|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• 2015 Twenty People to Watch, Creative Loafing{{cite web|url=https://creativeloafing.com/content-232647-20-people-to-watch---jonathan-rapping-the|title=Jonathan Rapping: The defender|work=Creative Loafing Atlanta|access-date=20 October 2015}}
• 2014 Purpose Economy 100, Inaugural Class{{cite web|url=http://purposeeconomy.com/portfolio/rapping/|title=Jonathan Rapping|work=Purpose Economy|access-date=20 October 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040825/http://purposeeconomy.com/portfolio/rapping/|url-status=dead}}
• 2014 INSPIRE Award, Cardozo Law School{{cite web |url=https://cardozo.yu.edu/news/inspire-awards-honor-those-dedicated-indigent-defense |title=Inspire! Awards Honor Those Dedicated to Indigent Defense | Cardozo Law |publisher=Cardozo.yu.edu |date=2014-01-30 |access-date=2015-10-20 |archive-date=2015-09-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907234126/https://cardozo.yu.edu/news/inspire-awards-honor-those-dedicated-indigent-defense |url-status=dead }}
• 2013 Distinguished Public Interest Lawyer in Residence, Touro Law School{{cite web|url=http://www.tourolaw.edu/Alumni/?pageid=215 |title=Touro Law - Distinguished Public Interest Lawyer in Residence Program NY |publisher=Tourolaw.edu |access-date=2015-10-20}}
• 2009 Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow, Harvard Law School{{cite web|url=http://www.law.harvard.edu/current/careers/opia/contacts/wasserstein/wasserstein-fellows-landing-page.html |title=Wasserstein Fellows | Harvard Law School |publisher=Law.harvard.edu |date=2014-06-23 |access-date=2015-10-20}}
• Co-Recipient, 2007 Lincoln Leadership Award{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}
• 2007 Soros Justice Advocacy Fellow{{cite web|url=http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/press-releases/over-1-million-awarded-visionary-leaders-criminal-justice |title=Over $1 Million Awarded to Visionary Leaders in Criminal Justice | Open Society Foundations (OSF) |publisher=Open Society Foundations |date=2007-02-20 |access-date=2015-10-20}}

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