Career
She holds the candidate.mag. degree, and worked in secondary schools, chiefly as a teacher, from 1982 to 2000. She was active in athletics in the 1970s and 1980s. In the early 1970s she represented the club Lillehammer IF. Later representing the club Illinois i BUL, she set a personal best in the shot put in July 1977 in Moelv, with 12.54 metres.
She later represented the club Heimdal IF. She is currently the chair of Sør-Trøndelag Athletics District Organization (since 2009, previously also 2003 to 2007).
In 2011 she was suggested by the election committee for a spot on the board of the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports. At the Confederation"s national convention, however, the politicking went against the wishes of the Norwegian Athletics Association and others, and Hunstad withdrew her candidacy.
She was a municipal commissioner from 1999 to 2003, and in 2003 she was hired as a political adviser for the city"s mayor Rita Ottervik.