Harvard Divinity School, 1974 Jesuit School of Theology, 1979 Mary E. Hunt (born 1951) is an American feminist theologian who is co-founder and co-director of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) in Silver Spring, Maryland, US.
A Catholic active in the women-church movement, she lectures and writes on theology and ethics with particular attention to social justice concerns.
[1] Hunt grew up in an Irish Catholic family in Syracuse, New York, and attended parochial schools.
There she was a student of the Catholic theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether, who introduced the issues of gender and sexuality into the curriculum.
She also studied with Jesuit priest and liberation theologian Juan Luis Segundo, who introduced issues of economics and international relations.