Meet the team & Partners
Your people matter!
You will work with credible, highly experienced staff and partners of Evaluation Plus.
People who share your values. People you can trust.
President & CEO
Laura Pinsoneault
Laura has more than 20 years of evaluation, philanthropic strategy, organizational development, and leadership experience. Over the course of her career, she has worked on a wide range of issues to advance equity and build resilience in families, communities and the systems that surround them. Her approach prioritizes assets and engagement as drivers of solutions in areas of health, education, economic security, environment, and social entrepreneurship.
Through her leadership of Evaluation Plus, Laura brings extensive expertise in helping partners translate complex change ideas into meaningful results.
Laura has devoted considerable leadership to building a deep and sustained commitment sharpening and expanding her skills to strengthen her capacity and the capacity of the field to create enduring change in communities. Evaluation Plus centers in all its work equity, inclusion and social justice. As a founding board member of ¡Milwaukee Evaluation!, Inc. Laura supports emerging leaders from underrepresented walks of life in evaluation and organizational learning practices so that they are ready to support meaningful change.
Selected areas of expertise:
Developmental, Formative and Summative Evaluation
Equitable community – research partnerships
Evaluation Capacity Building
Community Outreach and Engagement Strategy
Equity and Inclusion
Nonprofit Resiliency
Philanthropic Strategy
Place-Based and Collaborative Action Initiatives
Program and Portfolio Evaluation
Theory of Change Development
Education:
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin Madison in Human Development and Family Studies
Professional Affiliations:
American Evaluation Association
Milwaukee Evaluation
Kristen has nearly a decade of nonprofit funder and program leadership experience, with strong skills in program development, project management, and evaluation. She has worked with individuals and organizations from a variety of sectors including education, financial stability, aging, healthcare, and biomedical research.
Naturally curious and analytic, Kristen is skilled at building relationships and trust to move groups toward a common goal. Through her work in academic medicine, Kristen has developed unique expertise and skills in bridging connections between healthcare, science, and community.
Prior to joining Evaluation Plus, Kristen was a Program Manager at the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Kristen also served as a Portfolio Manager and manager of community impact at the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County.
Kristen is passionate about traveling and experiencing new cultures. In her free time, she loves to grow beautiful flowers and tasty vegetables, bake sweet treats, and watch documentaries on just about anything.
- Program and Portfolio Development & Management
- Community-Academic Partnerships in Health
- Process, outcome, and impact evaluation
- Qualitative and quantitative data analysis
- Project management
- Master of Science, Nonprofit Management and Leadership
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee – 2013Bachelor of Science, Sociology and Business Administration
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse – 2007
American Evaluation Association
Bridgid brings more than five years of support to Evaluation Plus, contributing across communications, project management, and data analysis. She is passionate about advancing a more just, equitable, and inclusive world, and brings both strong research skills and a talent for clear, accessible communication.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism, communication, and politics at Cardiff University, where her dissertation on UK media coverage of asylum policy won an award. Bridgid is now pursuing a master’s degree in international social and public policy at the London School of Economics.
Her training has equipped her with strong quantitative and qualitative research skills and a global perspective on the policies and systems that shape people’s lives. As an emerging evaluator, she brings fresh insights alongside academic and professional expertise. She is a talented writer and editor with experience leading news outlets at Cardiff University including Gair Rhydd and Project Focus.
- Writing
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis
- Policy Analysis
- Project Management
- Proficient in Spanish (upper-intermediate)
BA Journalism Communications and Politics
- Cardiff University – 2025
- Dr. Kerry Moore Award for highest dissertation mark in the School of Journalism Media and Culture
- Politics Joint Honours Best Performance Prize for highest overall mark in a Politics Joint Honors major
American Evaluation Association
UK Evaluation Society
Kristen Gardner-Volle
Research and Evaluation Associate
Kristen has nearly a decade of nonprofit funder and program leadership experience, with strong skills in program development, project management, and evaluation.
Bridgid Chanen
Special ProjectsAssistant
Bridgid is a dedicated local high school student committed to making positive changes in the world. Brigid supports E+ and our partners in everything from social media to project management and more.
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Meet Our Partners
AGMeneses Consulting catalyzes the power of people to become agents of their own change. Agnes anchors her practice to embrace equity by inviting heart and mind in the journey to personal transformation and collective action. She supports personal and collective change by holding space for strategic inquiry, relationship building and openness to learning. She leverages over 20 years of experience in nonprofit and philanthropy to host and nurture deep dialogue around equity and belonging.
Assists clients to achieve the broader impacts of their mission through professional consultation, research, strategic planning and assessment, systems management, data analysis, and grant services.
At Sort Sol Group, we engage social sector, business, education, government, and philanthropic leaders to be a collective force for community change. We focus on strengthening client impact in practice areas such as business modeling, group facilitation, governance, leadership, and strategy development. Bringing a networked consulting model, combined with community learning and development, we support projects tackling issues of all types and sizes.
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