Hunter is a first-year PhD student in Sociology at Princeton. He earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 2017 with a degree in Human Evolutionary Biology and a minor in Music. He spent the following three years in Seattle at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation on a fellowship while simultaneously earning an MPH from the University of Washington. There, he studied social demography with a focus on global educational attainment and education quality. He's originally from Tupelo, Mississippi, and his research interests include social stratification, economic mobility, education, demography, and families.