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Alexis Hunter

Associate Consultant

Alexis is a Ph.D. student and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, she worked at Wayne State University with health and racial disparities in chronic diseases (asthma, diabetes, and HIV/STI). She has worked as a Research Project Manager as well as a HIV test counselor and prevention specialist at the University of Michigan.

Alexis is passionate about her work within health and racial disparities, health equity, social justice, substance use, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention. She has extensive experience as a qualitative researcher, working inside urban and rural communities. She is interested in finding creative and innovative ways to use community engaged research to structure socio-behavioral and sexual health interventions for adolescent and emerging adults to address the gaps that exist for understanding sexual and gender minority health disparities.

Alexis has worked with: Community Youth Advance, Living Undivided

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

  • Master of Arts in Community Psychology and Social Change

Skills

  • Annual fund planning

  • Major giving

  • Board development, training, and engagement

  • Communications plans

  • Fundraising plans

  • Strategic plans

  • Project management

  • Cultural planning

 

System skills: Foundation online, Donor Search, Qualtrics, SPSS, SAS, NVivo

Accolades

  • Flagship Fellowship

  • McNair Graduate Fellow

  • Southern Regional Board Doctoral Scholar

Alexis has been featured in:

  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence

  • American Journal of Men's Health