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Rhonda Breitkreuz is a social policy scholar who researches the ways that social policies impact wellbeing, social equality, and access to resources for individuals and families in Canada and internationally. She has conducted Canadian policy studies on welfare reform, childcare and disability policy. Breitkreuz is the lead Editor of a new international book, Women鈥檚 Economic Empowerment and the State, with M. Baird (University of Sydney, AU) released by Edward Elgar Publishing May 2026. Breitkreuz directed a 57-minute documentary film about migration, The Long Road Home, which profiled the lives of her grandparents, Adeline Froehlich and Ewald Breitkreuz in their migration journey from Poland to Canada in 1928, including their lives as displaced persons between 1915-1923. This film premiered at the University of Alberta in 2018. Rhonda has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, mentoring, and student engagement, including the Inspirational Educator Award (2019) from the University of Oxford.  Before she became an academic, Rhonda was the Executive Director of a shelter for abused women and children.