Marilee Kenney Hunt
Principal, MKH Consulting
80 Austin Street, Bridgewater, MA 02324
508-562-2896
marilee@mkhconsulting.org, marilee@huntforunity.org
508-562-2896
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Education
Master of Arts in Political Communication, Emerson College, Boston, MA
Thesis: Communication with Survivors of Domestic Violence; The need for Civil Court Advocates
Activities: Lambda Phi Eta, National Honorary Society
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities, Doane College, Crete, NE
Major: Humanities; Minor: French
Activities: Cardinal Key, National Honorary Society; Student Judiciary Committee; Phi Sigma Tau Sorority
One-Week Course:Managing People in Public Agencies, Tier IV Management, Brandeis University, May 1997
National College of District Attorneys’ Domestic Violence Conference: Attendee, 1993-1998, Presenter 1999
International Association of Facilitators: 3 day intensive facilitation training, 2006
National Governor’s Association, Human Trafficking on the I-95 Corridor conference, July 25-28, 2006
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Employment
12/1/2007-Present MKH Consulting, Principal
Disabled Person’s Protection Commission: Office for Victims of Crime, Building Partnerships to Protect Persons With Disabilities from Abuse
1/2007-11/27/07 Victim Rights Law Center
18 Tremont Street, Suite 220 Boston, MA 02108
Position: National Director of Strategic Policy and Planning and National Director of Coordinated Community Legal Response
1/2004 -12/2006 Office of the Governor
One Ashburton Place, Suite 611, Boston, MA 02108
Position: Executive Director, Governor’s Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence
1999-2004 Executive Office of Public Safety Programs Division
One Ashburton Place, Suite 2110, Boston, MA 02108
Position: Director, Violence Against Women Grants Programs, Oversaw a budget of $3.12 million from the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; created RFR’s and RFP’s to award sub-grants, monitored all grant activities including providing on-going technical assistance to 100+ sub-grantees throughout the Commonwealth. Directed the Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit project; secured legislative funding; oversaw kit distribution; maintained kit standards and improved the MA kit when it became the national standard; created a strong, collaborative working relationship between the Secretary of Public Safety, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and private sexual assault advocates.
1992-1999 Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance
One Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 02108
Position: Domestic Violence Project Manager, SAFEPLAN Manager
1993-1995 Created and established SAFEPLAN Required intensive work with the legislature, local district attorneys, judges, court personnel, battered women’s service providers and others; wrote the SAFEPLAN Training Manual
1993-1996 Maintenance and expansion of SAFEPLAN Massachusetts
Domestic Violence Project Manager Some duties included: Authored a report on the existence of and need for specialized, civil court advocates for domestic violence; tracked and maintained a data base of domestic violence homicides in Massachusetts; wrote grants; planned training for civilian advocates in police departments.
1987-1993 Crisis hot-line volunteer, South Shore Women's Center, Plymouth MA
1987-1990 Volunteer court advocate and Volunteer's Newsletter editor, South Shore Women's Center, Plymouth, MA
1983-1986 Founder and Executive Director, The Storehouse, Inc. (a 14 church consortium soup kitchen) in Peace Dale, Rhode Island
1980-1981 Resource advocate, shelter worker and safe-home provider for South County Women's Resource Center, Washington County, R.I.
1978-1981 Founder and Executive Director, H.E.L.P.S., Washington County, R.I. (a social service agency “filling gaps” where other social services were lacking
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Skills
• Administration and Organization
• Grant/Budget Management
• Personnel
• Knowledge of State Government (including legislative lobbying)
• Written and Oral Communication
• Public Speaking
• Creative Thinking
• Grant/Budget Management
• Strategic Planning
• Problem Solving
• Meeting Facilitation
• Grant Writing
• Complete Computer Competence with: Word, WordPerfect, Outlook, Access, Excel, Power Point; some computer proficiency with Adobe PhotoShop
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Reports, Presentations and Professional Publications
• Transition Report on the Governor’s Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence from the Romney/Healey Administration to the Patrick/Murray Administration, December 2006.
• Summary Report of the Governor’s Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence, May 2003-April 2006
• A Report on the State of Education in Bridgewater, Massachusetts: A review of all information on the education and cost of that education for Bridgewater students in the Bridgewater-Raynham Regional School District, May 2005
• Massachusetts Violence Against Women Act S.T.O.P. Grant Application (Request for Response for statewide open bid), June 1999 and April 2002
• Statewide Strategic Implementation Plan for Violence Against Women Act S.T.O.P. Grant Funds for Massachusetts, April 1999, October 2000, March 2001, February 2002
• Presenter: Administrators as Activists, National STOP Grant Administrator’s Conference, Albuquerque, NM, October, 2002
• Presenter: Funding Your Initiatives, at the National Association of Asian American Professionals, Copley Plaza, Boston, MA , July 2002
• Presenter: Domestic Violence Guidelines 2002 (Revised), Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission, Winter Conference, 2002
• Presenter: Implementing Your Vision, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Portland, OR, August 2001 and National College of District Attorney’s, Reno, NV, November 2000
• Child Care Workers Domestic Violence Training Curriculum, DV101 Section, February 2000
• SAFEPLAN Advocate Training Manual, editions in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998
• A Guide to Domestic Violence Civil Court Advocacy in Massachusetts, 1st edition June 1993; second edition June 1996
• Reports to the Legislature on SAFEPLAN Massachusetts, 1996, 1997 and 1998
• SAFEPLAN Massachusetts Victim Safety Plan
• Training Manual for Civilian Advocates in Police Departments, 1997, update 2000
• The Inviolable Stance Rhetoric of Dr. Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon and President John F. Kennedy, a peer reviewed paper presented at the National Association of Speech Communication, 1992.
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Affiliations
• First Lady, Diane Patrick’s, Massachusetts Pro-bono Attorney Project, Advisory Committee, December 2007 to present
• Statewide Network to Support Victim Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities, Summer 2007-Present
• Massachusetts Children’s Alliance (MA Coalition of Children’s Advocacy Centers), Board Member, 2006-Present
• Citizens for Better Bridgewater, Vice Chair, June 2007-present
• Bridgewater Community Preservation Committee, Chair, September 2006-Present
• Governor’s Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness, 2004-January 2007
• Governor’s Interagency Taskforce on Substance Abuse, 2004-January 2007
• Massachusetts Victim Assistance Academy Steering Committee, 2005-present, chair Operations and Sustainability Committee
• Committee to write Guidelines for Law Enforcement Response to Sexual Assault, Chair, 2006
• Alternatives to Incarceration for Adult Prostituted Women, Steering Committee, 2003-present
• Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Advisory Board, Member, 1999- Present
• Pediatric Sexual Assault Advisory Board, Member, 2001-Present
• Rural Domestic Violence and Child Witness to Violence Project, Steering Committee, 2003-present
• Governor’s Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence (prior to being Executive Director)• Steering Committee, Member• Justice and Accountability Committee, Co-chair
• Governor’s Commission on Domestic Violence, 1993-June 2003 • Transition Sub-Committee • Finance Sub-Committee • Uniform Enforcement Sub-Committee, Co-chair with District Attorney Martha Coakley
• Member, Governor’s Task Force on Sexual Assault and Sexual Abuse, May-October, 2002, Co-chair Accessibility and Responsiveness Working Group
• National Advisor to the Office on Violence Against Women, S.T.O.P. Grant Administrators and State Coalition National Conference Planning Committee, Denver, Colorado, July 2003
• National Advisor (one of four advisors) on STOP Grant Administration to the Office of Violence Against Women, United States Department of Justice, STOP Administrators Conference Planning Committee, Washington DC, July 2002
• National Advisor (one of six advisors) to the STOP Technical Assistance Project, Sexual Assault Focus Group, Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, meetings in Washington DC June 2002 and scheduled for February 2003
• Massachusetts State Funders of Domestic Violence/ Sexual Assault Programs, Chair, 1999-2004, member 2004-2006
• Massachusetts Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit Advisory Board,1999-Present, Chair, 1999-2004
• Massachusetts Department of Education Advisory Committee on Traumatized Youth Projects, Member, 2001-2003
• Statewide SAFEPLAN Massachusetts Advisory Board, Member, 2001-2004 (when it ended) 2006-Present (when it reconvened)
• Civilian Police Advocate Advisory Board, Member, 1999-2004
• American Association of University Women, Taunton Area Branch, Member 1990-Present, Diversity Chair 1997-1999, Vice President 1999-2001, President 2002-2004, Co-Chair State Leadership Council, 2003; State Delegate to National Convention, June, 2003, State Vice President for Programs, 2005-2007.
• Bridgewater Improvement Association, 2004-Present
• Bridgewater Democratic Town Committee, 2002-Present, Delegate to Massachusetts Democratic Convention, 2006
• Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, 2006-Present
• Amnesty International, Partner of Conscious, 1988-Present
• Lambda Phi Eta, Speech Communications Honorary Society, 1992-Present
• Massachusetts/ Rhode Island Reader's Club, 1987-Present
• Bridgewater School Study Committee, Chair, 2004-2005
• Bridgewater/ Raynham Elementary School Council, 1996-2003
• Bridgewater Center for Fine Arts and Crafts, 1998- 2003, Vice President for Development
• Bridgewater Natural Resources Trust, Member, 1999-present
• New World Theater, Board of Directors, 2000-2003
• Bridgewater Fourth of July Committee, 1999-2001
• Advisor to Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, 1992-1995
• Senior Youth Group Leader, Cochesett United Methodist Church, 1988-1991
• Title I classroom assistant (volunteer), 1979-1984
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Awards:
Communication Studies Departmental Award for Mediation, Emerson College, 1992
Voice for Justice, presented by the Waltham Battered Women’s Support Committee, 1997
In Their Voice, presented by Healthcare of Southeastern Massachusetts, Brockton Womansplace, 2005
Champion for Change, presented by the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, 2005
Outstanding Leadership in Victim Advocacy, Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance, April 2007
Jeanne Geiger Center Changemaker, December 2007
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Other Information:
Married for 38 years to Carlton D. Hunt, PhD, oceanographer; parents to 4 grown children (2 sons and 2 daughters)
Host mother to 27 foreign exchange students from countries including Australia, Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, and Turkey.
Candidate for Selectman, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Spring, 2002 (defeated; second in a field of five).
Producer of Bridgewater’s Art Beat, for Bridgewater Cable Television Channel 8 (now Channel 9) 2000-2001
Set-host to and regular participant on, Around the Table in Bridgewater, Cable 9, BTV, 2003-Present
Frequent cable television appearances dealing with issues of local interest to citizens of Bridgewater, MA.
References available upon request