In this episode, our host Kristin Wolff talks with Josh Copus, Entrepreneur in residence at Jobs for the Future, a nonprofit organization dedicated to aligning and improving education and workforce systems and services so that everyone can access economic opportunity. Josh works in the part of JFF that's about innovation – JFF Labs, where he leads an initiative called AWAKE, the Advanced Workforce and Analytics Knowledge Exchange.

There's a lot here. Enjoy it.

For more information: * Jobs for the Future: https://www.jff.org/ * JFF Labs: https://www.jff.org/points-of-view/lab-moonshot-our-time/ * JFF Labs AWAKE Initiative: https://www.jff.org/points-of-view/national-association-workforce-boards-and-jff-announce-new-awake-initiative/; https://www.jff.org/what-we-do/impact-stories/awake/

Social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshcopus/ https://www.facebook.com/jobsforthefuture/ https://twitter.com/jfftweets

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