Christina Dressel

Hometown: Grand Rapids, MI

Research Interests: My research focuses on inequality and organizational change in the nonprofit sector. Through the lens of institutional theory, I am interested in how actors within nonprofit organizations make sense of justice and accountability in their everyday work and in turn, how these understandings influence organizational practices. I am also interested in exploring how place, space, and technology shape organizational sensemaking and community outcomes. I utilize mixed methods, including computational approaches. 

Undergraduate Institution and Major:

B.A. in Public and Nonprofit Administration with a minor in Geospatial Technology, Grand Valley State University, 2023

Conference Presentation:

Measuring Institutional Logics with LLMs and Human-in-the-Loop with Megan LePere-Schloop and Lucia Gomez Teijeiro. ARNOVA Annual Conference (Indianapolis, IN – November 2025)

Demonstrating Accountability: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Community Foundation Annual Reports. ARNOVA Annual Conference (Indianapolis, IN – November 2025)

Qualitative Coding with Hybrid AI and Human-in-the-Loop with Megan LePere-Schloop and Lucia Gomez Teijeiro. AI in Business Conference (Columbus, OH – October 2025) 

Measuring Institutional Logics with Organizational Language and Text Embeddings with Megan LePere-Schloop. ARNOVA Annual Conference. (Washington, D.C. – November 2024) 

Relevant Professional Experience:

• 2023, Research Specialist, DataWise Consulting
• 2022-2023, Research Assistant, DataWise Consulting

Honors and Awards:

• University Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2023
• ENGIE-Axium Supplemental Incentive Scholarship, 2023
• Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Modified Summer Scholar, Grand Valley State University, 2022
• Kathy A. Agard Philanthropy Fellow, Grand Valley State University, 2021-2022