Hunt has been trained in many small and large group facilitation methods which serve him well as a nationally sought after speaker, facilitator, trainer, planner, thinker, community and organization builder. Much of his research, training and methodology development were born during his three-year, 1995 – 1997, W.K. Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellowship. He uses a wide variety of techniques and tools including storytelling to create sacred space where the voices and visions of all that are gathered can be shared and heard.

Prior to starting David Hunt and Associates, Hunt served for eight years, 1988 -1995, as the executive director of the Chicago Rehab Network, a 25-year-old coalition organization of Chicago's community development corporations dedicated to Community Development without Displacement. During his tenure, Hunt doubled the agency's budget, quadrupled its staff and expanded its membership. A $2 million dollar single-family loan fund was developed for its members, the Housing Development Training Institute was launched, and the nation's first Masters Degree Program for nonprofit developers of affordable housing designed for and by community developers from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Even more significantly, under Hunt's leadership, the Rehab Network led a very successful, broad-based, citywide campaign, known as the Affordable Housing and Community Jobs Campaign, which resulted in the city of Chicago targeting $750,000,000 to low-income housing development. His 20 years’ experience in the community development and citizen empowerment field gives him a special interest in working with community based organizations and community organizers.

Since 1998 Hunt has served as one of four principal trainers of the Midwest Academy, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious organizing for social change training institutions.

From December 2002 to January 2005, Hunt took a leave of absence from his company to serve as the national organizing director for USAction, a national progressive organizing institution with thirty-six member organizations in 24 states. His job included developing and implementing a campaign to defeat the health care bill pushed by the major drug makers and HMO’s. In January of this year, he took on the role of developing USAction Education Fund’s (USAEF) non partisan voter registration and Get Out The Vote program. Though the great work of USAEF partners in sixteen states, USAEF registered over 600,000 people. It was the second largest voter registration program in the nation’s history.

Hunt is also the founder of the Community Building Storytelling Project, a project designed to reintroduce storytelling into American culture as a tool to build community and heal America.

Hunt served on a wide variety of volunteer boards including the advisory committee of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, and as a member of the board of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, and the National Storytelling Association.

Hunt grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended Howard University in Washington D.C. and now resides in Silver Spring, Maryland.