Rhonda Broussard
Ella Baker Institute
New Orleans, LA
Rhonda Broussard has been a change-agent in diversity, equity, inclusion and international education throughout her career. Previously, she founded a network of language immersion and International Baccalaureate world authorized schools, was a National Board Certified Teacher and taught in public schools in drop-out recovery, college access, working class, immigrant, and affluent school communities. She has served on the board of the Missouri’s Charter Public School Association, PROMO - Missouri's Statewide LGBTQ Advocacy Organization, and Washington University in St. Louis YMCAYWCA.
Rhonda has earned a Bachelor of Arts in French and Secondary Education from Washington University in St. Louis, a Masters of Arts in French Studies from The Institute of French Studies at New York University, and has studied in Cameroon, Martinique, Finland, New Zealand and metropolitan France. You can find Rhonda, her partner Kim, and her bilingual family living on native Bulbancha land also known as New Orleans, Louisiana where she studies, performs, and teaches dances from the African diaspora.
Overview
Beloved Community is building sustainable change, supporting regions to further their collaborative journey for racial, educational, and economic equity. This looks like empowering teams to drive change through equity audits and thought partnership; guiding leaders through capacity-building sessions + equity work plans; and curating customized frameworks for operationalizing equity commitments.
Through training in Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR), Beloved Community will equip high school students with the research and advocacy skills to successfully advance solutions to complex issues of educational inequity in their communities. Simultaneously, we will build the capacity of school/program administrators in our Equity in Schools (EIS) cohorts to leverage these YPAR researchers, moving toward regional, community-led consensus on school, district, and policy change. This program will serve students from New Orleans, Memphis, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Washington, D.C. (DMV).
