Alfred Edmond is a Senior Vice President and the Editor-in-Chief of Black Enterprise magazine. He is responsible for setting and enforcing quality standards for editorial content extensions of Black Enterprise, including blackenterprise.com, the Black Enterprise Business Report for radio and the Black Enterprise Report television show.
Mr. Edmond graduated from Rutgers University in 1983 with a degree in studio art and a minor in economics. He joined Black Enterprise in 1987 as an associate editor and advanced to various positions until he assumed his current role in January 2000. Before joining Black Enterprise, Mr. Edmond served as the senior editor of MBM/Modern Black Men Magazine, as an associate editor for the Daily Challenge, and managing editor of Big Red News, a black weekly newspaper in Brooklyn, N.Y. (now the New York Beacon).
An award-winning reporter and editor, Mr. Edmond has been recognized by TJFR Business News Reporter as one of America’s 100 Most Influential Financial Journalists. During his tenure as the chief editor of Black Enterprise, the magazine has earned five Folio: Editorial Excellence Awards in the category of business/finance consumer magazines, a Griot Award from the New York Association of Black Journalists and more than a dozen other editorial and design awards. A nationally recognized expert on business and economic trends, Mr. Edmond has appeared regularly on such television shows as CNNfn’s MarketCall, BET Nightly News and America’s Black Forum, and is a highly sought-after public speaker.
Mr. Edmond is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and a member of the board of the American Society of Magazine Editors. He is a life time member of the New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ) and the Rutgers University Alumni Association; and a lifetime and founding member of the Rutgers African-American Alumni Alliance (RAAA). He is also a charter member of the NABJ Business Writers Task Force. He currently serves on the editorial advisory board of the Rutgers Alumni Magazine, the board of trustees of the Bridge Street Church Preparatory School in Brooklyn, N.Y, and the board of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA). He has also served as an adjunct professor in the journalism department at Rutgers and as an instructor for the NYABJ High School Journalism Workshop at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus. In 2000, Mr. Edmond was recognized with the NYABJ’s Chapter Service Award.
A native of Long Branch, New Jersey, Mr. Edmond is a 1996 inductee into the Long Branch High School Distinguished Alumni Academic Hall of Fame. He has been a member of Brooklyn’s Bridge Street A.W.M.E. Church since 1983. He is a health and fitness enthusiast and pursues bodybuilding as a hobby. He has competed in several shows as a member of Natural Bodybuilding Inc., a drug-free body building organization, since 1999.