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 Rosalind
became Editor-In-Chief of The Network Journal in March, 2003. She
also is a partner in McLymont, Kunda & Co., international business
development strategists with offices in New York and the Caribbean.
Rosalind has over 18 years' experience as a writer, speaker and
adviser to small and medium-sized companies on global business.
She was an international trade reporter and later Managing Editor
(the first female and first Black M.E.) for The Journal of Commerce,
one of the United States' oldest and most prestigious daily business
newspapers, owned by The Knight-Ridder Corp. and subsequently by
Britain's Economist Group.
As a reporter Rosalind covered U.S., Latin American, Asian, African and Caribbean trade issues, for which she was critically acclaimed in the annual Media Guide to America's top financial writers. She designed special supplements on the North American Free Trade Agreement (which was submitted for a Pulitzer Prize) and trade with China. Rosalind became The Journal of Commerce's first female Managing Editor, assuming responsibility for its international trade coverage and global network of staff and freelance writers. She developed Global Commerce, a resource-oriented weekly tabloid for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as an internship program and U.S. journalism students and foreign journalists, including from Eastern Europe. She also hosted delegations of foreign journalists, business executives and government officials with the United States Information Agency's Visitors Program.
Rosalind has appeared frequently on CNNfn as a commentator on the impact of global events on U.S. international trade. She also appeared on the National Minority Business Council's "Business Report," a monthly cable television show, and was a guest writer for America Economía, Latin America's top business magazine. She continues to write on international business issues for such publications as The Journal of Commerce, World Trade, Business Standards, Minority Business Entrepreneur, The Network Journal, Transport Topics, New Steel, Quality Digest, Pacific Shipper.
In 1998 Rosalind joined Mc Lymont Kunda, where she designs and implements growth-oriented business strategies and organizes conferences on international trade issues for the company's clients in the US, Caribbean and Africa. Key projects include developing the international trade program for the National Minority Business Council, New York, and providing entrepreneurship development expertise for the Gender Program of the United Nations Development Program -- Africa Bureau. She helped coordinate and lead a 10-day study tour of the textile and apparel industries in Malaysia and Thailand for African women textile entrepreneurs.
Rosalind has served as an adviser to the Institute on African Affairs and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Business Outreach Centers Network, a not-for-profit resource and development organization for small businesses. She is a member of the New York Association of Black Journalists and the Alliance of Russian and American Women and traveled with the group to Russia to conduct entrepreneurship workshops for women. She was a guest lecturer for three years at New York University's graduate program in Latin America and Caribbean studies. Rosalind lived and taught in Uganda and Congo (formerly Zaire) from 1973 to 1980, and was a fellow in the European Community Visitors Program, studying the EC integration process in Germany, Belgium and Greece. She was named a Woman History Maker by the Caribbean-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Most recently, she was honored by the New York Association of Black Journalists for her commentary in The Network Journal on Africa.
Rosalind speaks French and Spanish. She has a Master's degree in Journalism from New York University, a Bachelor's Degree in French from The City College of New York, and a Certificate in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Madrid. She has a Black Belt in T'ai Chi martial arts, which she teaches and demonstrates in New York and the Caribbean.
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