Robin De Wind’s Second Act
By Mike Costanza, roc55.com
Former news anchor enjoying her new life as an entrepreneur
Robin De Wind sounds ready to take on her next challenge.
“Most of us look for the comfort zone,” she says. “I feel invigorated being out of my comfort zone.”
That desire to climb the next mountain has taken the 55-year-old from cub reporter for a Rochester television station to heading her own company, Robin De Wind Media Group. Not bad for someone who hates to be photographed.
De Wind didn’t set out for a career in journalism. She was raised in Pittsford, one of two children in a working-class family. Her mother, Patricia, was a stay-at-home mother until she took a job as a waitress to bring in extra money. She is now retired. De Wind’s late father, Robert, was a tower crane operator who worked on the Irondequoit Bay Outlet Bridge, the old Can of Worms highway interchange and other large construction projects…