Rhonda Broussard

Rhonda Broussard is an author, social entrepreneur, and futurist. She is the founder and CEO of Beloved Community, an American nonprofit committed to sustainable economic equity in schools, workforce, and housing. Broussard is an award-winning education entrepreneur and sought-after public speaker. She is a 28-year educator and researcher who founded and led a network of language immersion and international schools in the US. Broussard 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.

Broussard serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of EdNavigator and Treasurer of the Board of Directors of Dat School, Agile Learning Center. Previous Board service includes PROMO, Missouri’s Statewide LGBTQ Advocacy Organization, Missouri Charter Public School Association, and Campus YMCA-YWCA. 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.

Broussard lives in her native Louisiana with her partner, Kim and two children, Olivia and Oscar. Wherever she is in the world, she can usually be found studying, performing or occasionally teaching dances from the African diaspora. Her first book, One Good Question: How Countries Prepare to Lead will be published by TBR Books, a program of Center for the Advancement of Languages, Education, and Communities (CALEC).