My family tree has roots in publishing. My father and his siblings and mother helped my grandfather, Armondo Perilli, write and publish his Italian newspaper, Il Secolo XX or 20th Century, in their New Jersey home. Following in their footsteps, I launched my communications career as a reporter for The Princeton Packet newspaper, where my investigative journalism on neighboring municipalities’ collaborative land management would be awarded by the New Jersey Press Association. Recruited to serve as social editor, I enjoyed also writing monthly magazine articles and occasional opinion columns.
To realize my vision of creating original communications, I completed the postgraduate Radcliffe book and magazine publishing program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, now at the Columbia Journalism School in New York. Recruited from Radcliffe, I helped European Travel & Life consumer magazine in New York establish an advertising section that exceeded business expectations from our first bi-monthly issue.
Before I launched Aggie Perilli Communications International (APCI) in 1990, I became part of the four-member editorial team who transformed a biweekly New York trade newspaper into the monthly Housewares Retailing trade magazine. To round out my publishing experience, I later became manager of the production of AT&T technical publications for six writing groups in Middletown and Lincroft, New Jersey.
Outside my office, I enjoy nature hikes, yoga and cook light organic meals for our family and friends. Presently, I am writing a book, Communicate! When Push Comes to Love, about the only true and lasting power of unconditional oneness and love.
