Derrika L. Hunt

Dr. Derrika Hunt is a scholar-practitioner bridging education research, program evaluation, and community engagement with grantmaking. With a Ph.D. in education and a certification in Trust-based philanthropy, she specializes in trust-based philanthropy, social impact strategy, and educational equity for marginalized communities. She has scaled education programs across multiple states and countries, managed multi-million dollar budgets, and led Youth Participatory Action Research initiatives. Dr. Hunt is ready to drive the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation's mission forward by forging deep, trust-based partnerships, funding transformative learning experiences for educators and students while elevating community voices.

• UpMetrics, Leveraging Impact Metrics Data, Cohort Partner, 2025
• Racial Equity Labs Pilot Program, Consulting Researcher, 2024
• Education Reform and Community Schooling, Research Group Co-Researcher, 2015 - 2022
• The U.S. Department of State, Foreign Language Area Studies Grant, Assamese Language and Culture, 2016, 2018, 2020
• The University of California, Berkeley Human Rights Center, Human Rights International Research Grant, 2016
• Social Justice Projects Initiative, Principal Researcher, Funded by University of California, Berkeley, 2019
• Early Head Start Literacy Indicators Study, Co-Researcher, The Florida State University Center for Prevention, 2014

• Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts, 2020-2022
• Adjunct Professor, Mills College, 2020-2022
• Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 2015-2022
• Visiting Scholar, Dispur College, Assam, India, 2018
• Visiting Researcher, Gauhati University, Assam, India, 2017
• Adjunct Professor, Tallahassee State College, 2013-2014
• TEFL Foreign Language Teacher, Suwon Learning Center, Seoul, South Korea, 2010-2012

• Education Consultant & Translator, Mexico City, Mexico, 2024
• Global Programs & Partnership Consultant, Mexico City, Mexico, 2023
• Decolonial Black Feminist Summer School, Bahia, Brazil, 2018
• Youth Across the Diaspora, Program Coordinator, Cote D'Ivoire, 2017
• United Nations Intern, Kigali, Rwanda, 2009

• University of California, Berkeley Carla Trujillo Leadership Award and Fellowship, 2022
• University of California, Berkeley Teaching Excellence Award, 2022
• University of California, Berkeley Dissertation Fellowship, 2021
• Big Ideas, Searching for Missing Black and Indigenous Girls, Social Impact Award, 2021
• University of California Women's Center, Rise Award, 2019
• Soroptimist International Doctoral Fellowship, 2019
• Institute of International Studies, John L. Simpson Fellowship, International Development, Neoliberalism, and International Girls' Education, 2018 & 2019,
• University of California, Berkeley Chancellor's Award for Civic Engagement, 2018
• University of California, Berkeley Doctoral Fellowship (Full Funding), 2014

• “Decolonizing Study Abroad Programs: Settler Colonial Logics, Antiblackness, and Transnational Solidarity,” Keynote Lecture, EduExplora International, Bogota, Colombia, 2025
• “Third World Girls and Climate Precarity,” Guest Lecture, Harvard Divinity School, 2025
• “Undoing Global Power Assemblages: Reimagining Globalization,” Keynote Lecture, EduExplora International, Mexico City, Mexico, 2025
• “Abolition and Imagination: A Possible Global Education,” Keynote Lecture, EduExplora International, Mexico City, Mexico, 2024
• "The (Re)Turn to the Maternal Body: A Black Feminist Transnational Perspective," American Studies Association, Panelist, 2017
• “A Praxis of Healing: Black Feminist Epistemologies.” University of California Berkeley, African American/African Diaspora Scholars Program, Panelist, 2016
• “Gender in Multiplicities: Intersectionality, Coloniality, Assemblages, Co-Formations: French and US Conversations,” France, Panelist, 2016
• Florida State University, Student Commencement Speaker, 2013

• “If We Could Write This in Fire: A Love Offering & Tending to the Lives of Black and Indigenous Girls,” National Women's Studies Association, Organizer, 2023
• Black and Indigenous Girls Deserve to Grow Old: A Dialogue and Global Call to Action, Curator, 2021
• Beyond Schooling: Reimagining Education, Development and Empowerment for Third World Girls, Comparative International and Education Society, Panelist, 2019
• The Choreography of Black Girls in the City: A Conversation with Dr. Nikki Jones and Dr. Aimee Meredith Cox, The Black Girlhood Imaginary, Panelist, 2019
• Unstitching Third World Girls and Education: A Global Symposium, Institute for the Study of South Asia, University of California, Berkeley, Curator, 2019
• Between Good and Ghetto: Ten Years Later with Dr. Nikki Jones, The Multicultural Community Center, University of California, Berkeley, Organizer, 2018
• Neoliberal Effects on Indigenous Education: Community Response and Decolonial Possibility, American Educational Research Association, Panelist, 2018
• Imperialism, Anthropology and the Politics of Liberation: Girls in the Global South, Contemporary Ethnography Across Disciplines, South Africa, Panelist, 2016

• Hunt, D. (2020). The Politics of Citations: A Candid Discussion. Cite Black Women Podcast.
• Brown, K., Daley, L., & Hunt, D. (2019). Dr. Savannah Shange and the Black/Girlhood Imaginary. The Center for Race and Gender. University of California, Berkeley.
• Hunt, D. (2019). A Conversation between Alicia Garza and Winona LaDuke. Empowering Women of Color Conference. University of California, Berkeley.
• Hunt, D. “Creating the world you want.” an interview with Anne Brice at University of California, Berkeley.