Meet the Director

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Allen Triebel is making a second turn as Executive Director of the Gilmer Community Food Pantry. He has been with the Pantry for 14 years, doing everything from loading to buying. Active  in Gilmer County since moving here in 2005, Allen also volunteered at Bread-n-Bowl Ministries as a CASA and a mentor for high school and elementary students.

Allen has a bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education from Southern Connecticut and did graduate work in Soviet Studies at the University of Miami Florida. He served four years as a Green Beret 1st Lieutenant, XO for a Combat Diver A-Team and is a retired Arson & Fraud Investigator and Catastrophe Claims Supervisor for multiple insurance companies.

Allen has two successful sons and three beautiful grandchildren. He loves baseball, making wine in his garage, running 5K races and tooling around in his 1969 red MGB. He believes wholeheartedly in the quote “I cannot do all the good the world needs, but the world needs all the good I can do.”