Executive Committee
President:
Kimberly Brown
The Horse: Your Guide To Equine Health Care
859-276-6771
kbrown@thehorse.com
Kim is Publisher and Editor of The
Horse: Your Guide To Equine Health Care and TheHorse.com,
which cover all breeds and all disciplines for equine health,
care, management, and welfare. She also is a contributing
editor to The Blood-Horse, a weekly Thoroughbred news
magazine. Both publications are owned by Lexington, Ky.-based
Blood-Horse Publications. Kim has been a member of AHP since
1980 (when she started at Blood-Horse), and she is a member of
the AHP Executive Committee. Kim, who currently is the AHP
President, will preside over the organization’s 40th anniversary
in Lexington, Ky., in 2010. She has a small farm in Central
Kentucky where she lives with her husband, Ben, and a menagerie
of critters. Their nest is empting fast as Barbara is now living
in Wyoming with her two horses and mule and working at a guest
ranch and a private ranch (she’s a real cowgirl), and Beth is a
sophomore at the University of Kentucky. Among the “family”
still at home are the Miniature Horse geldings Hawk and Captain
Jack, a Miniature Donkey named Molly, seven goats, 47 chickens,
the Border Collies Star and Buck (not named for the coffee
chain), Ben’s Beagle/Basset cross Desdemona, and the cats Trent,
Trevor, and Toby.
First Vice President:
Sandy Kucharski
The Sentinel
847-362-0570 ext 209
fivelazyk@dls.net
Sandy was born
with a passion for horses and got her first pony when she was six. As a
youth, she gained experience through 4-H, riding western and hunt seat, and
participating in Horse Bowl, Judging and speech. She is currently a 4-H
leader, on their county Horse Committee, and a board member of their local
saddle association. She and her family own and board seven horses on their
farm in Woodstock, IL. In 1995, she was able to combine her love of horses
and journalism when she accepted the position of editor with The Sentinel, a
mid-western regional horse publication. At that time, she also attended her
first AHP seminar in Jackson Hole, WY. and was hooked. She met some of her
“magazine idols” and found a brotherhood of equine journalists who were very
open and willing to share knowledge (and a good time!).
Second Vice President: Cheryl Erpelding
California Riding Magazine
888-272-0472
cheryl@ridingmagazine.com
Cheryl is CEO Riding’s Publications Inc. and started her publishing business
in Dec. 1986. San Diego County Riding Magazine was an 8-page startup with a
press run of 2,500 copies. She hand drew her logo, typeset and shot her
printing plate negatives with a graphics arts camera in her garage. Riding’s
Publications is a million dollar plus company that publishes California
Riding Magazine, (20-23,000 copies per month), California Horseman’s
Directory, Sport Horse Stallion Directory and
provides design services for California’s horse industry.
She
currently shows Riding Magazine’s Hot
Off the Press in the hunter division.
Executive
Board Member: Brian Sosby
Equestrian Magazine
859-225-6934
bsosby@usef.org
An award-winning writer based in Lexington,
KY, Brian has been Editor of equestrian magazine, the
official magazine of American equestrian sport since 1937, for
the past eight years. Brian has covered both U.S. and
international events, including the 2006 FEI World Equestrian
Games in Germany, the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing
Olympics, the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro and the
Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event. His coverage of equestrian
events, as well as feature articles, has been widely read by
magazine and Internet readers around the world. Brian lives in
Lexington, KY, and his office is located in the bucolic Kentucky
Horse Park.
Executive Board Member: Patty Tiberg Cowboy Publishing Group
817-737-6397
patty.tiberg@cowboypublishing.com
With three decades of experience in the performance horse industry, Patty is
the Publisher for Quarter Horse News. Patty has been with
Cowboy Publishing Group since 2000 when she joined the organization as the
marketing director. A graduate of Texas A&M, Patty worked as the director of
member services at the Horse Industry Alliance and served four years as a
Board member for the Alabama Quarter Horse Association. In 2005, the Fort
Worth Business Press honored her as one of the “Top 40 Under 40,” a program
that recognizes young community leaders. Patty is an active volunteer for
several youth programs in her community. She serves on the Kennedy Center’s
Imagination Celebration Executive Committee and is a member of the
fundraising committee for the Kinderfrog’s School at Texas Christian
University. Patty and her husband, Steven, have a son, Colby, and
a daughter, Taylor.
Immediate Past President:
Jennifer Bryant
Affiliate Member
610-344-0116
jennifer@jenniferbryant.net
Jennifer, of West Chester, PA, is the AHP board’s inaugural affiliate
member. She has been a full-time freelancer since 1998, during which time
she has edited one magazine (USDF Connection), written or co-written
three books (Olympic Equestrian: A Century of International Horse Sport;
A Gymnastic Riding System Using Mind, Body & Spirit; The USDF Guide to
Dressage), written numerous articles, and edited several books. (More
information at www.jenniferbryant.net.) Jennifer is a former editor of Dressage & CT magazine and of the regional all-breed publication Hoof
Print. She got her start editing management and HRD books for Pfeiffer &
Co. A longtime dressage enthusiast and horse owner, Jennifer is a US
Dressage Federation silver medalist.
Executive Director: Christine W. Brune
386-760-7743
ahorsepubs@aol.com
Chris has been an AHP member since the mid 70s when she was Editor of Eastern/Western Quarter Horse Journal. In 1992, she took on the role of
Executive Director and holds the record of attending every seminar since her
first one. Her family showed Quarter Horses, both regionally and nationally,
for many years. Born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, she moved to Daytona Beach
in 1994, where she lives with her two Miniature Schnauzers, Fritz and Dickie
Boy. Officially one of AHP’s old-timers, Chris has enjoyed watching the
association’s growth in numbers and services over the years and has made
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Directors
Lauren Davis Baker
Flying Changes Magazine, Inc.
360-687-0203
lauren@flyingchanges.com
Lauren is owner, editor, and publisher of Flying Changes magazine, a
northwest sporthorse magazine she began in 1993. Her mission is to serve as
a resource for the local riding community by promoting monthly Northwest talent,
businesses, and horses. A background in technical writing and marketing
communications with Hewlett-Packard gave her a practical education in
marketing, publishing, and customer service. Lauren especially enjoys
writing humor and relationship-oriented pieces for the publication,
examining horse culture from new and interesting perspectives. Horse crazy
since birth, Lauren enjoys dressage and trail riding with her boys, Hans and
Napoleon.
Summer Best
Florida Equine Publications
352-732-8858
summer@flequine.com
Summer enjoys several management roles at Florida Equine Publications in
Ocala, where the company produces monthly The Florida Horse and Horse Capital Digest, and daily issues of Wire to Wire. A past
recipient of the AHP Student Award, Summer has worked as field editor for The American Quarter Horse Journal, Director of Marketing/magazine
editor for Seminole Feed, and as owner/founder of SunHorse Publishing and
Promotions. She is a sixth-generation native Floridian and graduate of the
University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications. Summer’s
farm, L’Estate, is home to competitive Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred
hunter-types, some good ol’ boy all-around horses, an occasional pony
prospect, three happy barn cats, a small herd of black Angus cattle, and her
favorite dog ever, “Delta,” the Giant Schnauzer.
Christine Hamilton
The American Quarter Horse Journal
970-472-8082
chamilton@aqha.org
Christine has been with The American Quarter Horse Journal
since 2003, and has been the magazine’s editor since November 2008.
Prior to that, she was a freelance writer for such publications as
Horse Sport, The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal, Southwest
Racing News and the Journal. She graduated from The
University of Alabama in 1990 with an English degree and proceeded
to make her living in the horse business primarily at breeding
facilities such as: Colorado State University’s Equine Reproduction
Laboratory; Bob Moore Farms, a leading racing quarter horse breeder
in Norman, Oklahoma; and Royal Vista Equine, an embryo transfer
facility in Fort Collins, Colorado. She also pursued a Master’s
degree at the University of Oklahoma where she taught composition.
Hooked on horses as a girl, her Air Force family hauled her horse
from base to base. She rides whenever she gets the chance.
Dean Jacobson
Virginia Horse Journal
540-351-0278
vhj@virginiahorse.com
Dean, Publisher of the Virginia Horse Journal, has been a
member of AHP since 1995, and a director of American Horse Publications
since 2003. He has enjoyed horses as a trail rider, breeder and fox hunter.
He and his wife founded the Virginia Horse Journal in 1995. Dean has
been the President of the Virginia Horse Council and a member of the
Virginia Horse Industry Board. He has conducted Virginia Equestrian Business
Seminars which provided topics including business planning, accounting,
business law, advertising and promotion as well as business Internet site
applications. As a director of AHP he has served on the Vision Award
committee and been an AHP seminar session speaker.
Cathy Laws
Equine Network
410-749-2086
clawsone@aol.com
Cathy has been writing and editing for publication for more than 20 years.
For 11 years she was the editor of SPUR Magazine, an award-winning
national bi-monthly devoted to English equestrian sport. In 2000 she founded
Equestrian Life, a content/shopping website that was acquired by the U.S.
Equestrian Team. She has been with Gaithersburg, Maryland-based
Equine Network as editorial director since 2001. Equine Network publishes EQUUS,
Practical Horseman, Horse & Rider and Dressage Today magazines as
well as several special publications, equine books and DVDs, and the
websites EquiSearch.com and Equine.com. She grew up foxhunting, Pony
Clubbing and showing hunters and now rides her Thoroughbred mare, Classical,
whenever she gets a chance.
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