Meet the Board

Becky is the founding editor of Moo-Cow Fan Club Magazine "The kid's magazine both funny and smart." She graduated with a communications degree at Emerson College in 1998 and spent the next year traveling around the world where she and her husband Ryan Wilson created the characters that make up the Moo-Cow Fan Club world. She joined the WIPP board in 2004 to get more involved in the magazine industry and to help recognize the power of women that work together.

Lori Birney joined DLG Media as the Circulation Director for Philadelphia STYLE, D.C. STYLE and City Guide last year. She has been in the Circulation Industry for 15 years. Prior to joining DLG Media, Birney was with Future US handling their music titles. Birney’s specialty is in circulation for City and Regional magazines. Her career includes a lengthy stint as the Circulation Director for Metro Corp., publishers of Philadelphia Magazine and Boston Magazine. Lori began her Circulation career with Washingtonian Magazine. Birney served as Circulation Chair for the 2003 and 2005 City and Regional Magazine conferences, has presented at various circulation seminars and is an active member of Women In Periodical Publishing. She was a 2005 recipient of Circulation Management’s Circulation Excellence Award.

Nanette Dillard grew up in the small San Francisco suburb of Lafayette, awash in California sunshine and repeats of the Partridge Family. A graduate of California State University at Northridge in vocal music performance, Nanette also attended the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy and the Hochschule fur Darstellende Kunst in Graz, Austria. She began her professional career as an opera singer while she was still a student at Northridge and then, as with any singer trying to make it in the big world, she moved on to sing in Europe picking up a love of travel and a couple of languages on the side.

As publisher of Travel Beyond Borders Magazine since its founding in 1999, Nanette strives to encourage African Americans to travel internationally by presenting destinations from Austria to Zanzibar in a manner relevant to who they are. "African footprints abound throughout the world and we make sure that we find them." remarks Nanette. The magazine, which includes lifestyle and social justice aspects, appears six times a year and is distributed nationally.

Marsha Enrici works for the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC). She was born in Chicago, IL. She went to college at Illinois State University and majored in Special Education. Marsha has many hobbies including cooking, reading, needlework, eating well, wine, family, and travel. Over the last three years, Marsha has visited Ireland, Belgium, Vancouver, Phoenix, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Austin, TX. Marsha thinks that being a WIPP board member is wonderful opportunity to help other women.

Elaine Y. Fry is Group Director of Manufacturing & Production for Forbes, Forbes Life, Forbes Asia and soon, Forbes Life Executive Woman.

Elaine has over 25 years experience in publishing production, working at The New York Times during and after graduating from Hunter College in New York City. She entered the magazine world with Ziff Davis as Production Editor for Cycle Magazine. She joined Time Inc. in Editorial Operations at Pine Street when that operation was relocated from Chicago, ultimately serving as Time Magazine’s Worldwide Operations Manager.

She and her husband, Michael Lonier, ran their own consulting and prepress business for 12 years after leaving Time, Inc.  Elaine rejoined the corporate world with Brant Publications as Manufacturing Director and then joining Forbes Media LLC in 2000. 

Co-WIPP Founder lruth@singlecopysales.com
Linda Ruth is the president of Publisher's Single Copy Sales Service and has almost 20 years of experience in single copy sales. She has held management positions at McGraw Hill and IDG Communications, writes regular columns for national trade publications, give publishing seminars throughout the country, and is President of Newsstands of America, one of the largest wholesale-distributed chains in the country.

Co-WIPP Founder thea@wipp.net
Thea brings 10 years of diverse marketing experience to Next Steps Marketing. From in-depth local customer development for international newspapers to marketing large consumer magazines globally, Thea has supervised both circulation growth and corporate marketing for media properties in several high-tech markets including the computer and interactive entertainment industries. Thea has worked for The Prague Post, Miller Freeman, Imagine Media, Computec Media U.S.A., and Red Herring Communications.

Thea has launched numerous magazines on the newsstand, including record-breaking 1.5 million copy launches of electronic games magazines. She has written articles for Circulation Management, conducts workshops at industry conferences, and is a founding member of Women in Periodical Publishing (WIPP) where she serves as Treasurer. Thea holds an MBA from the University of Oregon and an A.B. from the University of California at Berkeley.

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