Rhodes was hired as an assistant of psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1989, where she was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1995.
[2] Rhodes is co-Founder of MentorPRO, a technology platform for improving the effectiveness of mentoring relationships.
Her book, Older and wiser: New Ideas for youth mentoring in the 21st Century received the Eleanor Maccoby Award from Division 7 (2023).
Rhodes is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Research and Community Action.
She has been married to MIT Professor K. Dane Wittrup since 1990 and they have three children, Audrey, Ian, and Thomas.