Staff

(423) 269-2466
rchafin@netfoodbank.org

Rhonda Chafin has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee since 1993. She is a native of Bristol, Tennessee, and a graduate of Virginia Intermont College with a B.A. Degree in Business Administration. She is a graduate of the Bristol, Kingsport, Johnson City, Unicoi County, and Johnson County Chamber of Commerce Leadership programs.

Ms. Chafin led the food bank to successful Building Capital Campaigns and relocated the food bank to Gray, Tennessee in 1998 to its current location in Kingsport, Tennessee in 2013. From 1998 to the present, the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee has continued to grow by starting new initiatives to help feed more people in need; Kids Café, Food for Kids-a backpack kids program, Prepared and Perishable Rescue Foods Program, Mobile Food Bank and Mobile Pantry Programs. In 2025, the food bank distributed approx. 13.9 million pounds of food to over 100 non-profit charities and 74 mobile sites that feed the hungry in the eight-county region of Northeast Tennessee.