Carolyn Hunt, MPA
TA Manager, TIE Core
Carolyn Hunt is the Technical Assistance (TA) Manager for the Technology and Information Exchange (TIE) Core at CAPS where she manages a team who respond to requests for HIV prevention research or community collaboration support, and serves as co-chair of the CAPS Community Advisory Board (CAB). Her areas of expertise include program management, technical assistance provision, and community collaborative research.
Ms. Hunt graduated in 1987 from Carleton College with a self-designed major “Theory and Literature of Outsiders in American Society” and a minor in Spanish. She received 2 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships for independent research in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.
For the next 8 years, she ran service and community research programs in a low income, predominantly Spanish-speaking community and built a community coalition of service providers, school administrators, and parents. In 1995, she earned her MPA and was then accepted into the Presidential Management Internship program at the National Institutes of Health where she received management training and initiated 3 community research collaborative projects in environmental justice, breast cancer advocacy, and Spanish language technology transfer.
Before coming to CAPS, Ms. Hunt directed a California-wide technical assistance project in LGBT health for a local non-profit, and served as community co-PI on the Queer TIPS smoking cessation project. In 2001, she became project director for the Safe City Project and in 2005, joined the TIE Core.
Current research
Contact
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
50 Beale St., Suite 1300
San Francisco, CA. 94105
Voice: (415) 597-9110
Fax: (415) 597-9213
Email: Carolyn.Hunt@ucsf.edu
