Jonathan R. Whitfield

Chaplain, Berea College

Jonathan R. Whitfield is the college chaplain at Berea College, where he supervises 19 student chaplains and provides pastoral care to the campus community. He also serves as youth minister at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, and has served in hospital, juvenile justice and street ministry settings.

A native of Bennettsville, South Carolina, and the former head drum major of South Carolina State University's Marching 101, he is an ordained elder in the Church of God in Christ and is pursuing a doctor of ministry degree at Emory University's Candler School of Theology.