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Final Thoughts on 2025 with Marina Nitze

December 21, 2025 • The Imprint • Episode 225

We will post our annual “Best of The Imprint Weekly Podcast” show next, but this is the last new episode of 2025. Frequent guest Marina Nitze, a child welfare and tech expert, joined to discuss the flurry of federal activity on child welfare since the end of the federal shutdown.

Marina Nitze is a crisis engineer helping organizations solve mission-critical challenges, with a particular focus on improving America’s child welfare system. She’s co-author of Crisis Engineering and Hack Your Bureaucracy, and helps organize the Child Welfare Playbook.

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