Dr. Kyle Gresenz serves as the Director, Foundation Development at the ASU Foundation. He is experienced in philanthropy, with a specialty in charitable grants and foundation development. In his role at the ASU Foundation, he advises faculty and staff on philanthropic grant opportunities to advance research and fund programs across the ASU enterprise, while managing a portfolio of both regional and national foundation funders.
Gresenz is also a Faculty Associate at the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions in the School of Social Work. He teaches macro-level courses that focus on understanding institutional dynamics and how resources are emergent and determinant in shaping social outcomes.
Gresenz’s scholarship examines health policy, inequality, and the institutional forces that shape access to care, healthcare utilization, and health outcomes. His dissertation, Queer Out Here, leverages queer theory to explore healthcare inequities among rural lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations. More broadly, his work considers how geography, social identity, policy, and social structures interact to create barriers for underserved populations and shape opportunities for health and well-being. Gresenz has also been engaged in numerous collaborative research projects, including his work at the ASU Global Center for Applied Health Research and the Arizona Youth Identity Project.
Across his work, he is interested in how resources move through society via institutions and the direct material impacts that are experienced through the distribution of resources.