She said she was attending the University of Rhode Island when she was evicted from her apartment.
Rhodes also tried to dispel the myth that "the poor are poor because they're not working hard enough."
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They also said the minimum wage in the U.S. is far too low to support one person, much less a family.
All of the panel's speakers said they were involved in the fight against homelessness.
Nikita Williams, another speaker, recently made a movie about homeless people living in Boston Commons.
Tom Boland said he battles the problem through the online periodical, Homeless People's News.
Boland said his poetry about homelessness has been published all over the world.
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