Overview

Gender

female

Rhonda Nesmith Crichlow joined Charter Communications as Senior Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer in 2016. Ms. Crichlow is responsible for the overall strategic development and implementation of Charter’s diversity and inclusion initiatives. Ms. Crichlow also oversees Charter’s Community Impact function, focused on strategic philanthropic investments and employee volunteerism initiatives.

Ms. Crichlow joined Charter from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, where she served as Vice President, Head of U.S. Diversity and Inclusion, and President of the Novartis U.S. Foundation.

Before Novartis, Ms. Crichlow consulted for the Office of the Monitor, established pursuant to the Consent Decree entered in the Pigford v. Glickman and Brewington v. Glickman litigations. They involved nationwide class actions brought by African-American farmers alleging racial discrimination in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s farm credit and non-credit benefit programs.

Earlier in her career Ms. Crichlow worked as a tax attorney representing corporate clients. She also served as a judicial law clerk for U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

She received a B.A. in psychology and sociology from George Washington University, a Masters of Public Policy from Duke University and Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia Law School.