ROSE TIBAYAN
Chicago, IL
Rose Tibayan is an award-winning broadcast journalist and digital media entrepreneur. She began her news career as a production assistant with NBC Nightly News in New York City, and went on to become an on-air general assignment reporter, anchor, and producer at WPVI-TV (ABC) in Philadelphia, WINK-TV (CBS) Fort Myers, and KUAM-TV (NBC) Guam.
Today she is leveraging her reporting skills, lifelong passion for entrepreneurship, and instinct for business, as the driving force of Blackline Review, an online publication that covers technology and innovation.
In 2014, Rose founded the Sampaguita Group, a non-profit organization which tackles the issue of downward mobility of second-generation Filipino Americans pursuing higher education. The organization awards scholarships to Filipino American female college students. To further promote women, Rose launched Ligaya, an online magazine that chronicles the life and times of Filipino American women.
Rose holds a Master of Arts degree in medical and science journalism from Columbia University in the City of New York. ✿