Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe

Sharpe also served as president of the National Economic Association from 2017-2018 and holds a position on the board of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She is an editor for The Review of Black Political Economy.

Sharpe founded the Women's Institute for Science, Equity, and Race (WISER) on International Women's Day in 2016. WISER is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)3 research institute specifically devoted to the study of Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American women. In particular, Sharpe advocates for the disaggregation of data to examine outcomes separately for women in each group.

Sharpe has taught at Barnard College, Bennett College, Bucknell University, Columbia University, Duke University, and the University of Vermont. She chaired the Department of Business and Economics at Bennett College from 2009-2012. From 2008 - 2014, she was associate director of the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE), which she co-founded. In 2012, she left her tenured position at Bennett College.

Sharpe studied mathematics at North Carolina Wesleyan College and Clark Atlanta University and was a graduate student in operations research at Stanford University. She completed her PhD in economics at the Claremont Graduate University in 1998 under the guidance of Cecilia Conrad. Her graduate committee consisted of Llewellyn Miller, John Angus, and Gary Smith.

Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe (born 1966) is an American economist who is the founder and current president of the Women's Institute for Science, Equity, and Race (WISER). She is a feminist economist who has been a faculty member at an extensive list of colleges and universities and served as president of the National Economic Association from 2017-2018.