WonkCast: People Power Policy

Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy . If this is your first listen, you can also check out Episode 0 here to learn more about our vision and focus, and subscribe through Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Episode # 8: Author, Crisis Engineer, & Bureaucracy Hacker Marina Nitze Child welfare policy has a last mile delivery problem. We have no shortage of powerful ideas, and even...

Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy . If this is your first listen, you can also check out Episode 0 here to learn more about our vision and focus, and subscribe through Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Episode # 7: ACF Assistant Secretary Alex Adams This week on WonkCast we’ve got Assistant Secretary Alex Adams, who now leads the Administration for Children and Families. Und...

Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy . If this is your first listen, you can also check out Episode 0 here to learn more about our vision and focus, and subscribe through Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Episode # 6: AdoptionShare Founder & CEO Thea Ramirez Today’s guest, Thea Ramirez, Founder and CEO of AdoptionShare, is using the same data science that transformed online dat...

Welcome to the Thanksgiving week edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy . If this is your first listen, you can also check out Episode 0 here to learn more about our vision and focus, and subscribe through Apple Podcasts or Spotify . From the team here at the Wonk , we wish all of you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving. Episode # 5: Former ACYF Commissioner Rebecca Jones Gaston This week’s conversat...

Welcome, Wonks, to another edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy , where we spotlight the people, ideas, and tensions shaping child and family policy. If this is your first listen, you can also check out Episode 0 here to learn more about our vision and focus, and subscribe through Apple Podcasts or Spotify . I hope you enjoy listening, and look forward to hearing from you about who else you’d...

Welcome, Wonks, to another edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy , where we spotlight the people, ideas, and tensions shaping child and family policy. If this is your first listen, you can also check out Episode 0 here to learn more about our vision and focus, and subscribe through Apple Podcasts or Spotify . I hope you enjoy listening, and look forward to hearing from you about who else you’d...

Rita Soronen is the President & CEO of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption . Under her leadership, they’ve tested, proved, and taken to scale Wendy’s Wonderful Kids, an  evidence-based approach to child-focused recruitment for adoption from foster care. We talk about how the motivations that bring you into this work can eventually become a hindrance you need to shed, the role and limits of evi...

Our first episode is an interview with Mary Bissell, Cofounder and Partner at ChildFocus. She’s a lawyer, policy and advocacy strategist, and entrepreneur who is a leader in child and family policy advocacy. Mary has made an enormous mark on child and family policy, and her influence has been in rooms where policy decisions happen dating back decades.  We talk about the art of effective coalition...

Introducing WonkCast: People Power Policy, where we spotlight the people, ideas, and tensions shaping child and family policy.  In each episode, host Zach Laris talks with leading policy experts and decision makers about the future they're creating. We lift up conversations with the people who power child and family policy, and we also dig into: People . Leaders' background/"why"/significant mento...