Rhonda Nesmith CrichlowSenior Vice President,Chief Diversity Officer
"An inclusive culture deepens the connection we share with one another and the communities we serve."
Reflecting the Communities We Serve
Rhonda Nesmith Crichlow has spent her career serving underrepresented communities and building environments of inclusion and respect. She joined Charter Communications as Senior Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer in 2016 to lead the Company’s diversity and inclusion strategy and later assumed oversight of its philanthropic initiatives and community outreach. Rhonda has been instrumental in supporting Charter’s commitment to a workforce that reflects the varied communities it serves where our 95,000 employees live and work, and creating an inclusive environment across the Company’s 41-state operation.
During Rhonda’s tenure, Charter has launched several initiatives that assist local communities, helping them become more connected through programs focused on key human services, strategic small business support, philanthropic investments, and employee engagement. Introduced in 2022 as the Company’s tentpole program, Spectrum Community Center Assist revitalizes community centers in rural and urban areas and provides technology and digital education. Spectrum Digital Education partners with organizations to help with digital literacy, providing education, funding and technology resources, including computers and smart devices. The Company also supports the volunteerism of its 100% U.S.-based workforce by encouraging employees who volunteer with qualifying nonprofit groups to nominate them for financial grants distributed through the Spectrum Employee Community Grants program.
Rhonda’s Career
Rhonda joined Charter from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, where she led the implementation of its diversity and inclusion strategy as Vice President, Head of U.S. Diversity and Inclusion, and President of the Novartis U.S. Foundation.
Prior to that, she consulted for the Office of the Monitor, which was established by the consent decree issued in Pigford v. Glickman and Brewington v. Glickman class-action lawsuits brought by African American farmers who alleged the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s farm credit and non-credit benefit programs were discriminatory.
Early in her career, Rhonda worked as a tax attorney and served as a law clerk for Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
More About Rhonda
Rhonda serves on the Boards of Directors for The WICT Network, Syndeo Institute and The National Organization on Disability (NOD). She also is a member of the Corporate Board of Advisors for UnidosUS.
In 2024, Rhonda’s contributions earned her NOD’s Alan Reich Award for Innovation. In prior years, she received the T. Howard Foundation’s Diversity Advocate Award and the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Cable’s Next Generation Leader Award, and she consistently appears on the annual Diversity and Most Powerful Women lists published by Cablefax.
Rhonda holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and sociology from George Washington University, a Master of Public Policy from Duke University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia Law School.
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