The Best of The Imprint Weekly Podcast, 2025

As always, we were fortunate to have some amazing guests join us this year on The Imprint Weekly Podcast. In this episode we feature clips of 12 great interviews from 2025. 

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Liz Ryan, former administrator, U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Linda Spears, CEO, Child Welfare League of America

Kelley Fong, assistant professor of sociology, University of California, Irvine

Amy Harfeld, national policy director and senior staff attorney, Children's
Advocacy Institute

Sacha Klein, associate professor, Michigan State University School of Social Work

Alex Briscoe, co-founder, Public Works Alliance

Brandon Nichols, director, Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services

Barissa Ford, director of community outreach and engagement, Youth In Need

Claudia Rowe, editorial writer, Seattle Times, author of Wards of the State

Gretchen Sisson, qualitative sociologist, University of California, San Francisco,
author of Relinquished

Vinny Schiraldi, visiting fellow, Pinkerton Foundation

Alex Adams, assistant secretary for family support, Administration for Children and Families