Former homepage producer for The Washington Post's Web site and later editor of its religion web site, On Faith, Jeannine Hunter is a former innovation specialist within GSA's 18F digital unit, an online journalist and a former religion reporter. She has also served as a federal contractor at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Her experience includes working in the public affairs office at Children's National, teaching high school and college students journalism, and reporting in the Carolinas, Tennessee and the Washington, D.C. area.

For her work, she has won awards including two Golden Press Card Awards of Excellence, one of the highest honors awarded by the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists, and best web site award in 2007 and 2008 from the Tennessee Associated Press Broadcasters for creating/managing content for the web site of Nashville’s CBS affiliate. In 2005, she examined the religious response to HIV/AIDS, particularly in southern Appalachia, as part of a multimedia journalism project that garnered third place in a national contest sponsored by the Association of Health Care Journalists, based at the Missouri School of Journalism. The project was supported by Kaiser Family Foundation fellowship.