Who We Are

Kristin Lehoullier

For over twenty years, Kristin Lehoullier has been a leader and facilitator for non-profits, foundations, higher education, and government agencies. She has extensive experience developing systems, programs, and initiatives to serve adults and children facing adversity. Most of her projects have included a significant focus on employer demand, and she has extensive experience working with employers to identify their workforce needs and design responsive programs and policies. Her experience includes creating and implementing plans for workforce development programs, career pathways, systems integration, and improvement.

Kristin has excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills, combined with a strong analytical ability and a focus on results.

She received a BS from Miami University (Oxford, OH), Masters of Science in public policy and non-profit management from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, MA). She also received training in facilitation at the Interaction Institute for Social Change (Cambridge, MA). Kristin lives in East Greenwich, RI with her husband and children, where she enjoys supporting her local community, backpacking, traveling, yoga, and leading her daughter’s Girl Scout troop.


Our Team

Cathy Saunders
Cathy has three decades of experience in non-profit leadership, administration, and program development. She has worked with a variety of organizations in Rhode Island including serving as director of education at Providence Children’s Museum for 11 years where she oversaw all aspects of programming at the museum and at community partner sites and directed the museum’s award-winning AmeriCorps program. Cathy brings skills and expertise in: project management; program development and curriculum writing; and grant management and proposal development. Cathy has developed a reputation as collaborative team player and a strategic thinker who is committed to access and equity.

 

Bert Cooper
Bert is both a trained facilitator and a facilitative leader. He has effectively led groups to achieve and inform a variety of purposes including, strategic planning, program design and implementation, neighborhood/community planning, evaluation, and qualitative data collection.

Bert enjoys working in challenging community settings with ethnically and linguistically diverse participants and multiple personal and/or institutional agendas. Bert developed his facilitation skills working as a community organizer and planner for the Seattle Housing Authority where he partnered with community members to help plan and implement the complete physical redevelopment of two large public housing communities. Since moving to Providence, Mr. Cooper has facilitated multiple collaborations and group processes. Examples include working with community members and partners organizations to develop and prioritize economic development strategies and philanthropic investments in South Providence, leading a similar set of stakeholders through a process to analyze data and designate a single neighborhood to host a national housing rehabilitation initiative, and most recently, leading a workgroup comprised of representatives from nine organizations to implement a new statewide initiative to increase housing stability among low income families. Bert holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration with a concentration in non-profit management from the University of Washington.