Ann Powers Reilly

Ann Reilly is a former partner of The Lahr Agency, Inc., a retail/B2B marketing & advertising company whose clients included international shopping mall developer, Westfield, Marriott, DDE/Buena Vista International Television (Disney's international film production & distribution house), among others. The Lahr Agency created signature images for highly acclaimed natural history/documentary films including the pre-eminent EMPIRES series broadcast on PBS. Ann subsequently joined a high-end production firm where she created popular stamp products such asCurious George Wonders, the Comic Book Icons Philatelic Comic Collection, and Disney's Let's Write a Letter letter-writing kit. In 2007 Ann launched Powers Communications and with her experience in youth-oriented philatelic products, soon began developing an educational initiative for the US Postal Service. This resulted in the award-winning School Days & American Ways program materials to support the elementary schools in America.