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Rosemary Pencil Foundation

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About Us

The Rosemary Pencil Foundation was founded in 2005 and provides scholarships for students in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia to attend secondary school. Our goal is to improve the education of children who need it most. We work closely with locally based NGO Children in the Wilderness, CITW. Together we work on other initiatives that include bringing ICTs to the classroom in the form of e-readers and assisting those wishing to go on to higher education, particularly teachers training. Recently we supported the launch of a publication created and written by students for their local community; sponsored an after-school program based on a PBS television series and launched an essay writing competition.


The President and Founder is Gillian Rose,  a Senior Vice President of NBC Universal, based in New York. Previously she was a SVP at European media company Sky as well as former International TV Industry Relationships Adviser for the African Public Broadcasters Foundation/. She is a former two-term Chair of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) New York and a regular juror for the International Emmy Awards.  Ms. Rose has a Masters Degree in Communication for Development.


The Rosemary Pencil Foundation was created in the memory of Rosemary Rose, a teacher and educator who believed that everyone deserves a good education

Board of Directors

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

is Professor of African History and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Charles Ambler

Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of History, University of Texas at El Paso. Former President, African Studies Association (USA).

Lorie Conway

is an independent producer and filmmaker for Boston Film & Video, a company she founded in 2000.

Robin L. Greenwald Esq.

 is a lawyer with Weitz & Luxenberg, a New York City-based law firm, whose experience includes working with many non-profit organizations.

Georges Leclere

is a Global Media Advisor with LGMA and was former head of Television at the United Nations.

William Spencer Reilly

is Executive Director of the Sheen Center in New York City.

Wezi M. Msisha

 is a Senior Health Specialist with the World Bank, based in South Africa.

Steve Sharra

is a Malawian teacher, teacher educator and education policy analyst. He holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy from Michigan State University.

George Twumasi

is CEO of the ABN Holdings (African Broadcast Network) and Co-Founder of the African Public Broadcasting Foundation

Karen Carlton Wood

is the Sr. Director of Global Policy at Panthera, a conservation non-profit focused on the recovery of wild cat populations around the world.

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