Carolyn Hunt, MPA

Carolyn Hunt MPA

Carolyn Hunt is the Technical Assistance (TA) Manager for the Technology and Information Exchange (TIE) Core where she manages requests for HIV prevention research and community collaboration, 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. As an undergraduate, 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 programs in a low income, predominantly Spanish-speaking community and built a coalition of service providers, school administrators, and parents. In 1995, she earned her Masters in Public and Non-Profit Administration (MPA) and was accepted into the Presidential Management Internship (PMI) program at the National Institutes of Health. She received health research management training and worked on community research in environmental justice, breast cancer advocacy, and Latino health technology transfer.

Before coming to CAPS, Ms. Hunt directed a California-wide technical assistance project in LGBT health, and served as community co-PI on the Queer TIPSsmoking cessation project. In 2001, she became project director for the Safe City Project and in 2005, joined the TIE Core.

Current research

Last modified: February 1, 2012