Rhonda Broussard founded Beloved Community to create sustainable paths to regional economic equity.   Beloved Community works at the nexus of Equity in Schools, Equity at Work, and Equity at Home.  Her vision for Beloved Community is informed by her education leadership and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s goal “ to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.”

Rhonda has been a leader in diversity and international education initiatives throughout her career.  In 2007, she founded St. Louis Language Immersion Schools (SLLIS), a charter management serving an intentionally diverse school community with language immersion and International Baccalaureate pedagogy for all students. Under Rhonda’s leadership, the the first three schools in the network became IB World Authorized Schools, and SLLIS achieved an AYP of 92%, equivalent to Accreditation with Distinction from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.  Rhonda served as President of SLLIS until June 2015.

Rhonda is a Pahara-Aspen Institute Fellow and an Eisenhower Fellow. She completed her undergraduate studies in French and Secondary Education at Washington University in St. Louis and a Master of Arts degree in French Studies from New York University’s Institute of French Studies.  Rhonda and her bilingual family live in her native Louisiana where she studies, performs, and occasionally teaches dances from the African diaspora.