Helen LaKelly Hunt

Helen Lakelly Hunt has been active within the women’s movement for the past eighteen years. She is founder and president of The Sister Fund, a private women’s fund dedicated to the social, political, economic, and spiritual empowerment of women and girls. Helen has helped to found a number of other women’s funding institutions, including the Dallas Women’s Foundation, the New York Women’s Foundation and the National Network of Women’s Funds (now Women’s Funding Network). Helen has served on the Boards of Directors of the Ms. Foundation for Women, Women and Foundations, and the New York City Women's Agenda. Among Helen’s major civic activities have been active memberships on the Childcare Commission for the Mayor of the City of New York. Helen completed a Doctoral degree at Union Theological Seminary in New York City where she further explored how theology or a spiritual perspective has strengthened the work of women’s activism. Helen’s doctorate built on her past academic studies, which include three degrees from Southern Methodist University: a B.A. in Secondary Education, an M.L.A. in Liberal Arts, and an M.A. in Counseling. Helen has co-authored seven books with her husband, Harville Hendrix, and has been instrumental in the development of Imago Relationship Therapy, which he founded. Feeling strongly that our ability to function with integrity and wholeness within our communities and larger lives begins with our family connections, Helen focuses a great deal of her time and energies on sustaining connections with her husband, their six children and three wonderful grandchildren.