Welcome to our latest edition of WonkCast: People Power Policy.
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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 dating to reshape how we match children and families at scale.
Her work starts with a simple but disruptive question: what if our child welfare system isn’t suffering a shortage of families, but a shortage of the right connections?
We explore how improved data architecture, outcome-driven accountability, and genuine curiosity can open up cross-partisan space for real policy innovation.
We also talk about the balance between urgency and patience in high-stakes work, which is a tension I know many of you navigate every day.
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