Rhonda J. Broussard is an author, entrepreneur, and futurist. She 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, is 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 and Diverse Charter Schools Coalition. 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.