Our guest this week is Bill Rice! Bill currently works as a government consultant/contractor and has completed projects for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). On this episode, we discuss Bill's international activism with the Yazidis and Kurds and his local activism with criminal justice reform, including helping to raise Virginia's felony larceny threshold.
If you would like to donate to Yazidi relief efforts, please visit the following websites:
-Yazidi American Women Organization: http://www.saveyazidis.org/
-Yazda: https://www.yazda.org/
If you would like more information about the topics discussed on this episode, check out Bill's publications at the links below:
-Richmond Public Interest Law Review, "A Reform Long Overdue: Raising Virginia's Felony Larceny Threshold" https://scholarship.richmond.edu/pilr/vol21/iss1/3/
-Washington Kurdish Institute, "Turkey's Invasion of Afrin" http://dckurd.org/2018/03/18/turkeys-invasion-of-afrin/
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