Volume 1, Issue 1: The NetWork's Debut

January/February 2004

Across the globe, we finally have a place where we can all put our feet up on the coffee table, fluff the pillows, and TAKE OFF THE SUIT. Prop the laptop on your legs and bookmark The NetWork.

No “agendas” here. Well, other than to take your turn at the mic and say what’s on your mind. Oh yeah, and to become enlightened in a way you might never have before. In addition to our own writers, we’ve teamed up with the great people at The Independent Media Institute to bring you enlightening, provocative content... the conundrums of this world... let's discuss them and come up with solutions.

The RSS Feeds are updated WEEKLY, and the mag content is updated seven times a year. We want to grip you and get you talking, thinking. South Africa’s economic and political dynamic, Bush and The Iraq situation, the MBA world, Pop Culture, and everything in-between.

Yes, we are prospective and current MBAs.…. but we are variegated. Put most of us in a box, and we're miserable. Our VALs are constantly evolving- obnoxious and humble, charming when need-be, multi-talented, usually well-informed... yet the constant is that we're unapologetic about it all.

I contemplated the tone for “The Editor’s Desk”. Cool out vs. Corporate-speak? Sistah girl vs. Polished Professional? I’m a fusion of all of this, as I know many of you are. But, let’s just cool out here. There has to be an outlet for the conformity. And this is it. And to avoid 'writer's soliloquy', we're powered by Movable Type, so that you can instantly publish your comments and spark a dialogue on any particular piece.

Diversity. It’s dynamic. It’s me. It’s you.

It is not a buzzword.

This site is about inclusiveness. Not exclusivity. That being said, all races are featured in our magazine, all races are behind the nuts and bolts of this site. Feel free to be part of this initiative.

Make this site yours. Make this magazine yours. Let your voice be heard about a topic, even if you want to remain anonymous. So, in the end, we can all be better enlightened.

One Luv- One Life,
Keisha Dawn

P.S. Dedicating the premiere issue to Keith Clinkscales of Vanguarde Media (Savoy, Heart & Soul, and Honey magazines)
Keith, thank you for being our Big Brother and supporting the site. We know he’s got something else up his platinum cuff-linked sleeve… can’t wait to see what it is.

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Mbadiversity.com would like to give special thanks to the following:

Eleyna Fugman and the team at The Independent Media Institute

Lex at Lex Designs

Donna at Movable Type

James Danko- Associate Dean, Tuck School of Business and President of MBAR

Kristine Laca- Director, Dartmouth College, Tuck Admissions

Ella Bell- Essence magazine Columnist, Tuck professor

Karen Johns- Executive Director for GMAC’s Diversity Pipeline Alliance

The good people at Princeton Review- Katie Kurtz, in particular

Tasha Huebner- Wharton MBA, President of Bschool Essays

Linda Abraham- UCLA MBA, President of Accepted.com

Princeton University: Field’s Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding

The MBA Diversity Alliance

Keith Clinkscales- Harvard MBA, CEO of Vanguarde Media

Pam Pickens- Co-Founder of Black Diamonds NYC

Pierre Langlois, the coolest photographer around

BusinessWeek.com (for helping us get off the ground via marketing)

(special thanks to Detris Marshall for suggesting the mag name)

Lastly, to the diversity conferences at Harvard, Tuck, Duke, and Darden (thanx for letting mbadiversity.com take pics at your conferences!)

K.D. would like to send out a personal thank you to The Most High (I'm spiritual, y'all... not religious... but this is God's vision, for real), The Crew, and TMR MSN Group... look y'all... look at how far we've come! :0)

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