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Rhonda Vespestad — public professional profile

Research date: 2026-08-31. Scope: public, professional information only. Sources are linked inline; each item carries a confidence label (Verified = seen directly in a primary source; Likely = strong indirect evidence; Unverified = told to us / not found online). Nothing below comes from private data sources. Her LinkedIn profile was deliberately not opened (opening it notifies the owner); the one LinkedIn data point comes from a search-result card.

Summary (verified)

1. MA in Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo, Spring 2024 — thesis Predators and Parasites – The men who exploit women in Henrik Ibsen's dramas (IBS4390, 60 credits), supervised by Professor Ellen Rees at the Centre for Ibsen Studies; open access in NVA/DUO under the author name Rhonda Alicia Vespestad (title page reads "Rhonda Moore").
2. Sole proprietorship registered 29 July 2026: Rhonda Vespestad Krikkrak (org.nr 938 178 054, ENK, Oslo), stated purpose "Foredragsholder" (public speaker), NACE 90.209; not VAT-registered; holder Rhonda Alicia Vespestad.
3. LinkedIn: public profile exists (linkedin.com/in/rhondavespestad), location Oslo, headline in Norwegian describing an HR professional (employee relations, performance management, L&D, recruitment, internships, policies and procedures). Employers and dates were not retrieved.
4. KRAFT (Diversify, Lillestrøm, June 2026): tagged by Diversify in three LinkedIn posts about the KRAFT founder programme for immigrants; the tagging pattern points to her being a participant in the 2026 cohort (search-engine summaries call the list "mentors", but that reading does not hold up — see §4).
5. Nothing found online for: New York theatre credits, US HR employers, cruise-ship guiding/lecturing, Ibsen talks/podcasts/videos, personal website, Substack, Instagram/Facebook page, Medium, Amazon. The stated theatre, HR-employer and cruise-guide history is therefore Unverified (not contradicted — just invisible online).

1. LinkedIn / professional profile

• Public profile URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhondavespestad/en/ — Verified (the URL is the person-tag target in Diversify's posts; the /en/ suffix means the profile's primary language is not English, most likely Norwegian — Likely).
• Headline (as shown on a LinkedIn people-search card, 31 Aug 2026): "HR-profesjonell med erfaring innen medarbeiderrelasjoner, prestasjonsstyring, opplæring og utvikling, rekruttering, internships, retningslinjer og prosedyrer." Location: "Oslo, Oslo, Norway". — Verified (search card only; https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=Rhonda%20Vespestad).
• Employers, roles, dates, education section: not retrieved. LinkedIn blocks unauthenticated fetches (HTTP 999) and I did not open the profile from Stian's account. Recommendation: Stian opens the profile himself and copies the Experience/Education sections into this file.
• Web searches for "Rhonda Vespestad" + HR / human resources / New York / New Jersey / Connecticut returned nothing attributable to her. Searches under the thesis title-page name "Rhonda Moore" (via Bing) were swamped by unrelated people and produced nothing bridging to Ibsen/Norway. — HR employers: Unverified.

2. University of Oslo connection

• Thesis record (NVA, successor to DUO): https://nva.sikt.no/registration/019c95edf182-a920b889-54d8-475f-bbe9-4c0b46e71f14 — handle https://hdl.handle.net/10852/112208 (the old duo.uio.no URLs redirect here). Author: Rhonda Alicia Vespestad. Type: Master thesis, 2024, English. Affiliation: University of Oslo, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies. File: Predators-and-Parasites-among-Ibsen-s-Men-FINAL.pdf, 818 kB, open ("General terms of use"), record published in NVA 2026-02-25. — Verified.
• From the PDF itself (downloaded 31 Aug 2026, 64 pp, ~26,800 words):
  • Title page: "Predators and Parasites — The men who exploit women in Henrik Ibsen's dramas. Rhonda Moore. Master's Thesis in Ibsen Studies IBS4390, 60 credits, Spring 2024. Centre for Ibsen Studies, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies." — Verified. (NVA and Brønnøysund both carry the name Rhonda Alicia Vespestad; the thesis carries "Rhonda Moore". Noted as a fact only, because it affects which name to search for her US-era record.)
  • Foreword: thanks "my supervisor Ellen Rees, my husband Tom, my mother, Pearl and the Centre for Ibsen Studies". — Verified.
  • Supervisor: Ellen Rees, Professor, Centre for Ibsen Studies — https://www.hf.uio.no/is/english/people/aca/ellenrr/index.html (listed on https://www.hf.uio.no/is/english/people/). — Verified.
  • Content: four plays — Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, John Gabriel Borkman — read through Foucault (power/biopower/pastoral power) and Simone de Beauvoir, with an explicit #MeToo framing of sexual coercion and "parasitic" male characters. She writes: "I acknowledge that I have a Western and very American perspective on these matters." — Verified.
• Centre for Ibsen Studies news / conference talks: no mention found. Site-restricted searches (hf.uio.no, ibsensociety.org, ibsenstage.hf.uio.no) and the Ibsen Society of America site search (https://ibsensociety.org/?s=Vespestad) return nothing; UiO's central site search returned 404 to a fetch. — Not found.

3. New York theatre credits

• Searched: Playbill, BroadwayWorld, TheaterMania, Backstage, About the Artists, IBDB, IOBDB (Lortel), Off-Off Online, IMDb, plus generic "Vespestad" + stage manager / producer / dramaturg / actor. No entry for Rhonda Vespestad. The only Vespestads in these databases are Norwegians (Jarle Vespestad, jazz drummer; Sigurd Vespestad Marthinussen, actor, Oslo; Alex Vespestad, US producer/editor) and Kyle Vespestad (Wichita community theatre) — none is her.
• Under "Rhonda Moore" the name is too common for a bare search to be meaningful; nothing surfaced that connects to Ibsen, Norway or Oslo. IbsenStage (UiO's production database) could not be queried by fetch.
• Status: Unverified. Ask her for a credits list (companies, productions, roles, years); Off-Off-Broadway work is often simply not indexed.

4. Public speaking on Ibsen / entrepreneurship programme

• Brønnøysund purpose "Foredragsholder" (see §7) is the only formal trace of a speaking activity. — Verified that the registration exists; the actual talks are Unverified.
• Cruise-line enrichment lecturer listings (Viking, Hurtigruten, Havila, Cunard, Past Preservers agency), Sons of Norway, Norwegian-American press, Ibsen Society of America, Norwegian speaker bureaus (Talerlisten, Seminarpartner), YouTube, podcasts: nothing under her name. — Not found.
• Tour guiding: no trace on Norges Guideforbund / Oslo Guideforening / Ibsen Museum pages. Note that ship-excursion guides are normally hired via port agents and are rarely named online, so absence is expected. — Unverified.
• KRAFT programme (Diversify) — https://diversify.no/kraft/ : free entrepreneurship programme "for immigrants and people from marginalised backgrounds who have a business idea"; two weeks of in-person training in English at Gründerhuset Business Lillestrøm, 15–26 June 2026, followed by group mentoring August–December 2026. Diversify's LinkedIn posts for KRAFT Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4 (posted about two months before 31 Aug 2026) each end with the same list of ~15 tagged people including Rhonda Vespestad (Sara Cunha, Jenni Ryan, Shwetha Sundari, Theodore G., Rhonda Vespestad, Soren Stone, Gabriela Sitarz, Angie Rose N., Raquel Maia Marques, Angela Kivle, Shahrukh H., Minh Kenny Nguyen, Aggrey Amatta, Bianca Cenan, Sayantani Saha). Source: LinkedIn content search https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/content/?keywords=%22Rhonda%20Vespestad%22 ; company page https://www.linkedin.com/company/diversify/posts/ . — Verified that she is tagged.
  • Interpretation: Bing/Google snippets summarise this as "listed among mentors". That is an artefact of the Day 4 post also containing a call for mentors. The identical list is tagged on the Day 3 post, which has no mentor call, and Diversify's own page names no mentors. The list reads as the 2026 KRAFT cohort of participants. — Likely: participant; "mentor" reading: doubtful/Unverified.
  • Timing: the ENK was registered on 29 July 2026, a month after the KRAFT training ended — consistent with the business idea being formalised there. — Likely.

5. Website, newsletter, social media, author pages

• Personal website: none found; the ENK has no hjemmeside registered. Substack, Medium, Amazon author page, YouTube channel, professional Instagram/Facebook page: none found under "Rhonda Vespestad" or "Rhonda Alicia Vespestad". — Not found. (The only Vespestad accounts surfacing are relatives-by-surname in Norway; not attributed to her.)

6. Norwegian ties (public/self-published only)

• Surname Vespestad is West-Norwegian (Sunnhordland/Bømlo); the business register shows Vespestad sole proprietorships in Bømlo, Sveio, Bergen, Alver and Oslo, none connected to her. — Verified (register), no inference drawn.
• Residency: Oslo, per both Brønnøysund (business address in Oslo, kommune 0301) and LinkedIn. — Verified.
• Self-published in the thesis: title-page name "Rhonda Moore"; foreword thanks "my husband Tom" and "my mother, Pearl". — Verified; nothing further is inferred.
• Norwegian language: LinkedIn headline written in Norwegian; ENK målform bokmål. Weak but consistent with "currently learning Norwegian". — Likely.

7. Business registrations (Brønnøysundregistrene)

• RHONDA VESPESTAD KRIKKRAK — org.nr 938 178 054 — https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/oppslag/enheter/938178054 (API: https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/api/enheter/938178054). Enkeltpersonforetak; registered in Enhetsregisteret 2026-07-29; business address Oslo (kommune 0301); NACE 90.209 "Annen utøvende kunstnerisk virksomhet og underholdningsvirksomhet ikke nevnt annet sted"; stated purpose "Foredragsholder"; sector 8200 (self-employed); målform bokmål; not in the MVA register; not in Foretaksregisteret; no employees registered; not bankrupt/under liquidation. Roles (https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/api/enheter/938178054/roller): innehaver Rhonda Alicia Vespestad. — Verified.
• No AS, no other ENK, no board roles found for her. Full "Vespestad" name search in Enhetsregisteret (11 hits) shows nothing else attributable to her; proff.no search returned a server error and purehelp.no sits behind a Cloudflare challenge (its index does list "Rhonda Alicia Vespestad" as a role holder, consistent with the ENK). — Verified (register) / no other entities found.

What this means for the camp idea

• The Ibsen credential is real, recent and checkable. MA in Ibsen Studies (UiO, 2024) with an open-access thesis supervised by Prof. Ellen Rees is exactly the kind of proof Oslo parents, schools and institutions (Ibsen Museum & Teater, Nationaltheatret, Litteraturhuset, UiO) respond to. She should put the thesis link and the Centre affiliation on every camp page; today nothing online connects "Rhonda Vespestad" to Ibsen except the NVA record. The thesis topic (sexual coercion in Ibsen, #MeToo) is adult material — for a children's programme the framing should be her method (close reading, power dynamics, rewriting scenes) rather than the thesis subject.
• HR/operations background is self-described and plausible, employers unverified. For a camp it translates directly into the boring-but-decisive work: recruiting and vetting instructors (politiattest is mandatory for adults working with minors), staff contracts, safeguarding routines, HMS, parent communication. Ask her for the concrete employer list so the memo can cite it.
• Theatre production experience has no online footprint. It may well be real (Off-Off-Broadway work is poorly indexed), but for credibility with Norwegian partners she needs a written credits list and, ideally, one or two referees. Until then treat it as a claim, not an asset, in any partner-facing material.
• She already has a legal vehicle and a founder-support structure. The ENK (purpose "foredragsholder") can invoice camp fees tomorrow; VAT registration is not needed below the NOK 50k threshold, and teaching services are in any case largely VAT-exempt (check with the KRAFT mentors/accountant rather than assume). She is most likely mid-way through KRAFT's August–December 2026 group mentoring, so this memo should complement that (market, partners, curriculum, pricing) rather than re-explain ENK-vs-AS basics. If the camp grows past one person and takes children on site, an AS for liability reasons is a later question.
• English is the obvious first market, and her network is thin online. Her public presence is in Norwegian (LinkedIn) and aimed at the Norwegian job market, but the strongest immediate wedge is English-language camps for international-school and expat families in Oslo (OIS, BISS, embassy and corporate families), plus American/expat channels (American Women's Club of Oslo, Democrats Abroad Norway — membership not verified). A one-page bio site with the thesis, UiO affiliation and a speaking reel is the single cheapest credibility fix.
• Cruise/guide season collides head-on with summer camps. Norwegian cruise and guiding season runs roughly May–September; Oslo school summer holidays run late June to mid-August. If guiding is her income, the realistic first products are høstferie (week 40), vinterferie (week 8), Easter and weekend courses, or a July-only block she blocks out from guiding in advance. Summer camps would either compete with her earnings or need a second instructor she trusts.

Search log (for reproducibility)

Web search (Google/Bing via tool, ~60 queries) on: "Rhonda Vespestad", "Rhonda Alicia Vespestad", "Vespestad, Rhonda", "rhonda-vespestad", "Rhonda Moore" (+Ibsen/Oslo/New York theatre), combined with LinkedIn, HR, Ibsen, UiO/DUO, Playbill/IBDB/IOBDB/BroadwayWorld/TheaterMania/Backstage/AboutTheArtists/IMDb, cruise/Hurtigruten/Viking/Havila/Cunard/enrichment, Sons of Norway, Norwegian-American, Ibsen Society of America, talerlisten/seminarpartner, YouTube/podcast, Facebook/Instagram/Substack/Medium/Amazon, AWC Oslo/Democrats Abroad, brreg/proff/1881/purehelp. Direct fetches: Brønnøysund open API (entity + roles + name search), NVA search + publication API + presigned file download, Diversify KRAFT page, Founder Institute Oslo mentor list (not listed), Ibsen Society site search, UiO Centre for Ibsen Studies people list. Browser (two pages only): NVA record page, LinkedIn content search and people-search result card. Session web-search budget was exhausted after the "Rhonda Moore" name variant surfaced, so that variant was only checked via Bing fetches.