Rhonda Broussard is the Founder & CEO of Beloved Community and Awa by Beloved, PBC. She developed Beloved Community to create sustainable paths to regional racial and economic equity. Rhonda has been recognized as a Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Ministry of Culture, a Highland Leader, a Tulane Mellon Fellow, a Pahara-Aspen Fellow and an Eisenhower Fellow. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Generation Hope, New Orleans African American Museum, and Diverse Charter Schools Coalition.

Rhonda is a veteran educator and researcher who founded and led a network of language immersion and International Baccalaureate schools in the US. Rhonda studied education in Cameroon, Martinique, metropolitan France, Finland, and New Zealand. Her essays have been featured in The Future of University, North American Edition; Building Bridges, One Leader at a Time; This I Believe, Personal Essays by the Women and Men of Eisenhower Fellowships; IB World magazine, and Forbes Magazine. 

Rhonda has earned a BA in French and Secondary Education from Washington University in St. Louis, a MA in French Studies from The Institute of French Studies at NYU, and has studied education systems in Cameroon, Martinique, Finland, New Zealand and metropolitan France. Rhonda is the author of One Good Question: How Countries Prepare Youth to Lead. You can find Rhonda, her wife Kim, and her bilingual family living in Bulbancha, also known as New Orleans, Louisiana, where she studies, performs, and occasionally teaches dances from the African diaspora.