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David E.K. Hunter, PhD

Director of Evaluation and Knowledge Development,
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation

A cultural anthropologist and clinical social worker by training, David Hunter joined the Foundation in July 1998 following a six-year stint as Superintendent of Cedarcrest Hospital in Newington, Connecticut, and a year and a half as CEO of the Southwest Connecticut Mental Health System. Hunter previously had held a variety of positions managing mental health services in the public sector. During his work in the mental health field, he led the reorganization of several institutions to support decision-making grounded in the use of timely, pertinent, and
accessible data. Hunter credits that experience with preparing him for his current job in which, among other things, he is working with his colleagues and the Foundation's grantees to apply a "theory of change" approach to capacity building that makes use of well-designed outcomes
in order to help promote the success of grantees. In earlier years, he had been a tenured associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at (then) Southern Connecticut State College.

When not at the Foundation, he enjoys his family, a small private practice in psychotherapy, reading novels and history, and playing classical guitar.