Laura Pinsoneault joined the Alliance for Children and Families Intellectual Capital Division as the organization’s director of evaluation and research services in March 2011.
She has 15 years of experience in employing qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods in program evaluation, outcome measurement, and community-based research projects.
Pinsoneault has published numerous articles and reports related to nonprofit human services. A significant portion of her work has focused on civic engagement and social change movements as vehicles for promoting education, health, and economic security within marginalized communities.
She is a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2006, she received her master’s in human development and family studies, with an emphasis on critical family studies and social identity, and currently she is pursuing her doctorate, focusing her research on the socialization strategies white parents use when talking to their elementary school-aged children about race.
