Rae Young Bond is the executive director of the Medical Foundation of Chattanooga and director of Project Access, a community health partnership to coordinate charity care for low-income uninsured residents of Hamilton County. She has served as executive director of several organizations, including the Medical Society of Chattanooga-Hamilton County, First Things First, and the Tennessee Municipal League.

Before moving to Chattanooga in 1994, she was director of public affairs for the National Governors’ Association in Washington, D.C., for ten years; editor of a national weekly newspaper; and a congressional press secretary and journalist. She is a graduate of Towson State University. In Chattanooga, her current community involvement includes the board of directors of the Community Research Council, the Why kNOw Education Program, the Southeast TN Association of Professional Fundraisers, and the Emergency Food and Shelter Board; Hamilton County Step ONE Health Initiative Steering Committee and Operations Council; the Project Access Operations Council; and the Regional Health Council Communications and Information Development Committees. She has served on the national board for America’s Charities; on the planning committee for the 2005 Communities Joined in Action/Association for Community Health Improvement Conference; on the Regional Health Council; on the boards of the Coalition Against Domestic and Community Violence, the Center for Nonprofits, First Things First, the Hamilton County Courts Mediation Pilot Project (Steering Committee), Scenic City Women’s Network, Front Porch Alliance, and numerous other boards and health care task forces. She also served on the Citizens’ Panel to Select a City Judge and on the Tennessee Economic Council on Women Conference Planning Committee.