EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Amy Colin was named Executive Director in October 2024. She has leadership experience in developing and executing strategic membership plans and maximizing program effectiveness. She was Interim Chief Operating Officer with Girl Scouts of Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri, an organization serving 25,000 members with volunteers and a staff of 67 employees. She also served as Vice-President of Mission Delivery, Senior Director of Membership, and Director of Membership and Volunteer Engagement with this organization.

Colin holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Central Missouri and a Certification of Volunteer Administration. She and her husband reside in Bluffton.

 DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATOR

Angelica (Angel) Marcinkoski joined Second Helpings in April 2023. She has a more than a decade of experience in program development, customer service, training, and grant-writing, most recently with Beaufort County Government.

Marcinkoski holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Food Science, a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Georgia Southern University, and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Lander University. She and her family reside in Bluffton.

PRESIDENT

Mary Ann Bell joined the Second Helpings board in 2020 and has been Board President since 2022.

Bell is a CPA from Pittsburgh who spent 30 years at the H.J. Heinz Company, Kraft Heinz, and WESCO International in various finance leadership roles, including business planning, strategy, and investor relations. In 2013, she received the H. J. Heinz Chairman’s Award for Integrity, and in 2016, was honored by the Pennsylvania Diversity Council with a Most Powerful and Influential Woman Award. In 2024, she was named the Beaufort Deanery Catholic Woman of the Year. 

 VICE PRESIDENT

Alan George joined the Second Helpings board in 2024. He is a retired marketing executive from H. J. Heinz and Brown-Forman, and has worked as a consultant specializing in strategic planning and organization development for consumer packaged goods companies and advertising agencies.
A native of West Virginia, George and his wife moved to Hilton Head Island in 2014, and he became a Second Helpings truck volunteer. He became the Hilton Head Friday day captain in 2022. He has also been a board member of First Tee and the Italian-American Club of Hilton Head, and is a current member of the Knights of Columbus at Holy Family Catholic Church.

SECRETARY 

Patrick (Pat) Murphy was elected to the Second Helpings board in 2024. He was an attorney, mediator and arbitrator in private practice in South Florida and a member of the board of directors of the Deerfield Beach Chamber of Commerce and the Deerfield Senior Center For Aging and Alzheimer Day Care Center before moving to HHI.

Murphy has volunteered with Second Helpings since 2020. He has been affiliated with the Sea Pines Men’s Club, the 100 Men and Women Who Care, Safe Harbour, the  Lowcountry Legal Volunteers, and the Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs of HHI.

Kelly Brown is a lifelong resident of the Lowcountry who lives in Hampton County with her husband, Kevin and their granddaughter Lily. Brown’s passion for helping others started early—she began volunteering at Hilton Head Humane at age 16. During her 17-year career as lead paralegal at the Anderson & Brown Law Firm, Brown maintained significant community involvement. After she retired in 2023, she founded the Animal Care Fund of Hampton County. Under her leadership, more than 400 community cats have been spayed or neutered through TNR (trap-neuter-return) efforts in less than two years. She is an active Hampton County Rotarian and a member of the Magnolia Garden Club of Varnville.

Renata Johnson Green was elected to the board in 2025. She is the principal of Ridgeland Elementary School in Jasper, a position she’s held for nearly 12 years. Under her leadership, the school’s SC Report Card Rating has risen substantially, to Average, and has been named a Points of Light Blue Ribbon School of Excellence and a National Beta Club School of Distinction. A career educator, she also has 10 years of teaching experience and was named Teacher of the Year twice.

Green holds a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, a Master of Arts in Teaching and Master of Science in Education Administration, and a Master of Education in Educational Leadership. She is a member of the SC Association of School Administrators Board of Directors and secretary of King Branch Baptist Church.

Jeff Kravis joined the Second Helpings board in 2023. A retired Wells Fargo executive, Kravis has an MBA from New York University and more than 30 years of financial and analytical experience. He is a volunteer truck driver and a key member of Second Helpings’ Farmers Fresh produce initiative, developing relationships with local farmers to supplement rescued food.

Kravis and his wife moved to the Beaufort area from Charlotte, where he prepared and delivered food to the homebound. He also helped with food preparation and distribution at a food bank and shelter.

Kim Nicholson of Beaufort volunteers for Second Helpings at the Port Royal Farmers’ Market. She and her husband, Keith, are also Second Helpings truck volunteers.

Nicholson recently retired from the agribusiness industry, where she achieved much success in strategy, general management, sales, operations, and marketing. She was most recently Vice President of Ag Technology and Innovation for The Mosaic Company. Nicholson has served on the board of Rantizo (provider of drone technology solutions for agriculture) and three venture capital firms. She is an advisory board member of the Cultivator AgTech Accelerator. She earned a Bachelor of Science, Soil and Crop Sciences from Purdue University.

David Nix became a Second Helpings director in 2025. He has been a truck volunteer since 2022. His professional career was primarily spent with PepsiCo, Inc. in Purchase, New York, where he served as training manager, and was in franchise development, national sales, and was named regional vice president. In 2012, he started a sales training/consulting business, where he developed customized training for independent Pepsi bottlers. He has facilitated over 200 instructor-led training classes.

Nix is also a volunteer reading tutor at Ridgeland Elementary School.

Kathryn Weismantel joined the board in 2025. She is the Chief Marketing Officer of IKS Health, a trusted innovator in healthcare technology and care enablement. Prior to that, she was Head of Marketing, Americas, at Oliver Wyman, a global management consulting firm. Her nonprofit experience includes serving as a marketing advisor to the Executive Director of Fullers Center for Housing in Clarksdale, MS, where she also volunteered building homes in the 9th poorest county in the US.

Weismantel holds an MBA from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame.