Editor-In-Chief

Rosalind is editor-in-chief of The Network Journal, New York’s premier magazine for Black professionals and business owners. She is the author of the groundbreaking books, Middle Ground (Beckham, 2006), which won the 2007 S’Indie award for “Best Fiction,” and Africa: Strictly Business-The Steady March to Prosperity (TNJ, 2009). She is also a partner in McLymont, Kunda & Co., an international trade and business development strategy firm serving clients in the United States, Africa and the Caribbean.

Rosalind has more than 20 years’ experience as a writer, speaker and adviser to small and medium-sized companies on global business. She was an international trade reporter and the first female and first Black managing editor at The Journal of Commerce, one of the United States’ oldest and most prestigious daily business newspapers.

As a reporter at The Journal of Commerce, Rosalind covered global trade issues, for which she was critically acclaimed in the annual Media Guide to America’s top financial writers. As managing editor, she was responsible for the paper's 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 for U.S. journalism students and foreign journalists, including from Eastern Europe. She appeared frequently on CNNfn to comment on the impact of global events on U.S. trade and on the National Minority Business Council’s "Business Report," a monthly cable television show. She also was a guest columnist for America Economía, a leading business magazine in Latin America. Her articles on international business appear in such publications as The Journal of Commerce, World Trade, Business Standards, Minority Business Entrepreneur, Transport Topics, Quality Digest, and Shipping Digest. She has won two awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists for her work at The Network Journal.

In 1998 Rosalind joined McLymont 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 providing entrepreneurship development expertise for the Gender Program of the United Nations Development Program’s Africa Bureau. In the latter role, 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, and participated in a workshop on accessing American markets at the American and African Business Women's Alliance conference in Botswana in 2002.

A former president of the Caribbean Media Association, Rosalind has served as an adviser to the Institute on African Affairs, as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Business Outreach Centers Network, and as an executive board member of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation. She has traveled to Russia as a “citizen ambassador” with the Alliance of Russian and American Women to conduct entrepreneurship development workshops for women. She was a guest lecturer for New York University’s graduate program in Latin America and Caribbean studies.

Prior to becoming a journalist, Rosalind taught English and French in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is a past fellow in the European Community Visitors Program and was named a "Woman History Maker" by the Caribbean-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She has received awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists, the International Black Women’s Congress, the CEJJES Institute, the National Minority Business Council and the New York Regional Chapter of the National Association of Health Services Executives.      

Rosalind was born in Guyana and 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 in New York, and is a certified ZUMBA GOLD fitness instructor.