Krista Gullo is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. Her graduate research focuses on climate change as a social change process within existing institutions and their interfaces with one another. She integrates ideas on institutional theory and ethnography. Empirically she uses multiple methods-qualitative and quantitative.
 
During her dissertation, she has been a Graduate Student Research Assistant (GSRA) for Sustainable Mobility Accessibility Research and Transformation (SMART) from January 2008 through April 2010. She has also been a research assistant for Dr. Arun Agrawal on an Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise funded pilot study focusing on corporate perceptions of climate change from September 2009 through August 2010. She is currently a Graham Fellow through the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute.
 
Prior to her doctorate, she joined the Ford Motor Company in 2002 and served as a manager, Sustainable Business Strategies for Ford Motor Company. In this role, she was primarily responsible for producing Ford's award-winning Sustainability Report, and coordinating the company's socially responsible investing strategy. She also developed an internal sustainability communication and education strategy for the Company including development of an intranet site and a learning community for employees.
 
Krista Gullo received a B.A. and B.S. in Anthropology and Environmental Policy from the University of Michigan and studied briefly in London, England and Dakar, Senegal. She completed her Masters of Environmental Management at Duke University.

Selected Publications

Andrew Hoffman, Krista Badiane and Nardia Haigh. “Hyrbrid Organizations as Agents of Positive Social Change: Bridging the For-Profit & Non-Profit Divide” chapter in Karen Golden-Biddle and Jane Dutton (eds.) Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group forthcoming 2011.

Krista Badiane and David Berdish. Commentator in Journal of Current Anthropology special addition on new conceptual and methodological understandings of the corporate form 2011.
 
Manuscripts In Preparation
 
Krista Badiane, Cristy Watkins and Arun Agrawal. “What Corporations Do When Governments
Don’t: A Study of Corporate Climate Attitudes and Actions.” Currently determining target submission venue.

Sara Soderstrom and Krista Badiane. “Climate Change Discourse and Corporate Responses: Evolution of Multiple Institutional Logics” Target submission: Organization, Special Issue on Climate Change, February 2012.

Larissa Larsen, Laura Sherman, Laura Smith, Darshan Karwat, Krista Badiane and Paul Coseo. “The Role of Experiential Learning on Student Understanding of Sustainability and Social Justice: Examining a Neighborhood in Southwest Detroit.” Target submission: Journal of Planning, Education and Research, December 2011.

Research In Progress

Sara Soderstrom and Krista Badiane. "The Role of Multiple Institutional Fields and Actors on the Evolution of Climate Change Logics." Data collection.