Rhonda Phillips

Rhonda is the Founder and Director of the Thompson Scholars Foundation. She retired from a career of 25 years in Public Health with the Cumberland Valley District Health Department.  She received her BS in Business Administration and Psychology from University of the Cumberlands. Her experiences earlier in life as a single parent raising her racially diverse family in a rural eastern Kentucky town led to her commitment to action toward social justice through acknowledging and combatting systemic racism.  Rhonda has three adult children and four grandchildren, and she and her husband Clyde live in Manchester.