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id: "news:innovating-in-the-public-interest"
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title: "Episode 1: Innovating in the Public Interest with Anita McGahan"
url: "https://innovate-us.org/comms/innovating-in-the-public-interest"
date: "2025-04-22"
authors: ["Jessica Silverman"]
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licence: "CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), as stated on innovate-us.org"
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# Episode 1: Innovating in the Public Interest with Anita McGahan

By Jessica Silverman · 22 April 2025

In this first episode of the InnovateUS podcast, Jess Silverman talks with [⁠Anita McGahan⁠](https://burnes.northeastern.edu/people/anita-mcgahan/) from [⁠The Burnes Center from Social Change⁠](https://burnes.northeastern.edu/) about her InnovateUS workshop series Innovating in the Public Interest: Partnering for Public Good. Learn about how to achieve early wins, how to scale public sector innovations, and how to demonstrate the impact from your projects.[⁠](https://events.zoom.us/ev/AvZ4ZXNDuuat9WVijDtKSqPWom027CGRzbAv0E1BXFh6DMDq209L~AkO6jTfdOu0ndqpEOS1suUGwszUUvZ2RMyoiDcNixCUusyNKhELxgIYg3g)

Check out Anita's work here: [⁠pisquared.burnescenter.org](https://pisquared.burnescenter.org/)

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Original page: https://innovate-us.org/comms/innovating-in-the-public-interest · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), as stated on innovate-us.org