Jessica Hunt currently serves as the assistant dean and director of scholarships in the Morehead Honors College, coordinating the Foundation Fellows and Ramsey Scholars programs and working with students seeking external scholarships such as the Rhodes, Marshall, Schwarzman, Knight-Hennessy, Udall, Truman, and Goldwater awards.

Jessica is a graduate of the University of Georgia, receiving her BA in English in 1984 and her MEd in 2008, and is a former Foundation Fellow. After two years on a reforestation project in Guatemala with the Peace Corps, she worked for almost two decades to integrate technology into secondary English classrooms in Atlanta; Washington, D.C.; Aberdeen, Scotland; and, finally, back in Athens.