Rosalind
Kilkenny McLymont
Thursday,
December 17, 2015, 6:00-7:15 pm
Calabar
Imports Harlem
2504
Frederick Douglass Blvd. (at 134th St.)
Harlem,
NY 10030
Rosalind Kilkenny
McLymont is the executive
editor of The Network Journal, a
leading Black-owned and operated U.S. business magazine targeting an audience
of Black professionals and business owners; CEO and publisher of
AfricaStrictlyBusiness.com, an online Africa business news, analysis and
resource platform for a targeted global audience of business owners, executives
and students, investors, policymakers and academicians; and the author of the
award-winning novel, Middle Ground,
the first “rebranding Africa” novel on the market (See videos at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aag7JIvQtCY and www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeUXCmdu97Y);
the new novel, The Guyana Contract;
and the non-fiction title, Africa:
Strictly Business, The Steady March to Prosperity.
McLymont has more than 25 years’ experience as a journalist, writer,
speaker and adviser to small and medium-sized companies on global business and
entrepreneurship. She began her career in business journalism in the mid 1980s
as an international trade reporter at The
Journal of Commerce, a Knight-Ridder daily newspaper focused on global shipping,
logistics and trade. (Founded by Samuel Morse in 1827, the paper was once
considered America’s most prestigious paper.) McLymont became the paper’s first
Black managing editor under ownership by The Economist Group, publishers of The
Economist. In this role, she was the highest-ranking Black professional ever in
the entire Economist Group. She left The
Journal of Commerce in 1998, after 13 years in its employ, to work
independently providing training for women entrepreneurs in Africa as a
consultant to the United Nations Development Program (Africa Bureau)’s Gender
Program, and for women entrepreneurs in Russia as a Citizen Ambassador to that
country under the Alliance of Russian and American Women. She also provided
expertise on accessing U.S. markets for the American and African Business
Women's Alliance conference in Botswana in 2002.
As executive editor of The Network
Journal, McLymont oversees the editorial content of both the print magazine
and TNJ.com. She speaks on behalf of the publication at its annual “25
Influential Black Women in Business Awards” Luncheon, its “40 Under Forty Black
Achievers Awards” Dinner, and represents the publication at high-level events
with U.S. and non-U.S. business and civic leaders, government officials, and
African heads of state. She has made several trips to Africa on behalf of The Network Journal and
AfricaStrictlyBusines.com, most recently as a delegate to the 4th World Summit
of Mayors and Leaders from Africa and of African Descent.
McLymont has been featured in the annual Media Guide to America’s top
financial writers. She appeared frequently on CNNfn financial news to comment
on the monthly release of U.S. trade figures, and as a regular guest lecturer
at New York University’s graduate program in Latin America and Caribbean
studies. Her articles and columns on international trade appeared in such
publications as The Journal of Commerce,
The Congressional Record, America Economía, World Trade, Business Standards,
Minority Business Entrepreneur, Transport Topics, Quality Digest, and Shipping Digest. Her Journal of Commerce articles, under the
byline Rosalind Rachid, have been referenced in U.S. Congressional debates on
trade policy, and worldwide in newspapers, books and scholarly research.
McLymont has also appeared on ABC TV’s Like
It Is, GRITtv, at The Brecht Forum, and as a Literary Leader on Esther
Armah’s radio show “Off The Page,” WBAI 99.5 FM, New York. She has also
appeared on ABC TV’s Here And Now,
hosted by Sandra Bookman; CUNYtv’s Independent
Sources. She has also been a frequent guest speaker on international trade
topics at colleges, universities and trade organizations.
McLymont has served as an advisor to the Institute on African Affairs;
founding vice president and subsequently president of the Caribbean Media
Association; an executive board member of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation;
and as a volunteer mentor at New York Women’s Foundation’s Girls Leadership
Day. She is a founding member of the Advisory Board of York College (City University
of New York) Journalism Program, currently serves as a member of the Council of
Advisers to the Songhoy Paramount Chief; and served two terms as a member of
the Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee of the Export-Import Bank of the
United States,
McLymont taught English and French in Uganda and the Democratic Republic
of Congo from 1973 to 1980. An alumna of the prestigious European Community
Visitors Program, she has been named a “Woman History Maker” by the
Caribbean-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a “Phenomenal Woman in
Media” by Our Time Press and Herbert Von King Park Cultural Arts Center, and
one of “50 Power Women in Business” by MEA
Magazine.
She has received commendations and awards from the New York Association of
Black Journalists, the International Black Women’s Congress, the CEJJES
Institute (Rockland County), the National Minority Business Council, the New
York Regional Chapter of the National Association of Health Services
Executives, the Office of the Comptroller of New York City, the Guyana Cultural
Association, the National Association of Kawaida Organizations – New York
Chapter (Malcolm X Unity Award), the Global Alliance of Mayors and Leaders from
Africa and of African Descent and the New York City Council. In June 2015 she
was awarded Guyana’s Golden Arrowhead Award of Achievement and Distinction and
in October she was honored as Executive Editor of the Year by African American
Women in Cinema (AAWIC).
McLymont 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 Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. She has a Black
Belt in T’ai Chi, a Zumba™ Gold Instructor Certificate, and a Senior Instructor
Certificate from the International Fitness Association. She has completed
courses in Qi Gong at The New York Open Center. She created and teaches Trim
Brulée, a fitness program incorporating all of the above disciplines.
McLymont is married to Fritz-Earle McLymont, cofounder of the National
Minority Business Council, Inc. (NMBC); founder/executive director of NMBC
Global and NMBC Global Entrepreneurship Center; managing partner of McLymont,
Kunda & Co.; and CEO of Brittonearth Energy Ltd. The couple resides in New
York.
We have an
exciting lineup for 2016. Mark your
calendar for readings/discussions with Nigeria
Lockley, January 7; Kaitlyn Greenidge,
January 21; Kim Coleman Foote, February 4; Jacqueline Bishop, February 18; Amber Atiya, March 3; Yvette Louis, March 17; Pamela Booker, April 7, Farah Jasmine Griffin, April 21;
Stephanie Renee Payne, May 5; Mecca
Jamilah Sullivan, May 19, Cynthia
Manick, June 9; Celeste Rita Baker, June 23.Stay updated by
following Women Writers of the Diaspora’s blog at http://womenwritersofdiaspora.blogspot.com/.
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