Currently is the Festival Director for the Dreaming Festival.

A member of the Bundjalung nation, Wiyebal clan of Northern NSW and South East QLD, Rhoda was also one of 24 Australians selected as Creative Directors to the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games.

For the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival she was also co-creative director with Stephen Page of Tubowgule, the official opening ceremony of the Festival. Her other role with SOCOG on a part time basis was Indigenous Cultural Advisor.

Rhoda was Artistic Director of The Festival of the Dreaming, 1997, the first of four Olympic Arts Festivals. Well known for her work with SBS television as a journalist and presenter for the current affairs program, Vox Populi, she has also worked for Network Ten and ABC Radio as a producer and journalist.

Rhoda has written and produced several documentaries, and was the first Aboriginal to host a national prime time current affairs program. She continues her radio work as reporter and presenter of the national music program Deadly Sounds.

Her involvement in the arts is extensive. She was a co-founding member of Australia's first national Aboriginal theatre company, the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust (ANTT) and as an actor/producer and director, continues to work in theatre, film, television and radio