Women In Adult (WIA), the adult industry female empowerment organization created by HMoss Consulting's Holly Moss in 2002, has slimmed down with the resignation of president Lori Z on Tuesday and Friday's announcement that the organization's board of directors has been dissolved. Holly Moss will now run WIA.
Although WIA has long been known for its cocktail parties at industry conventions, the organization doesn't have a notable presence anywhere else, which is largely a result of time constraints and other business interests, Holly Moss says. Still, the group has managed to accumulate some substantial sponsors: Video Secrets, XBiz, AEBN, Epoch, Mansion Productions, NetBilling GUBA, NakedSword, and TopBucks.
In addition to shedding the board, WIA's website no longer will offer a separate members' area. All of the information on the site is now available to everyone.
"We're keeping it simple instead of building out the members' area with a resource board and all that. It's never going to be that resource board with the time we have allocated to it," Holly Moss continues.
Looking ahead, WIA is focused on its next event, which will take place during Internext at the Westin Diplomat's outdoor courtyard on August 7 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. The group has no definitive plans beyond that, Holly Moss says. "Right now, our strength is having networking cocktail parties. I think people have a good time, and I think there's value in them."
When contacted by AVNOnline.com, Lori Z and former WIA Vice President Amparo Alcarez declined to comment. Board members were Rainey Stricklin, Britney Andrews, Reena Patel, Holly Ruprecht, and Greg Piccionelli.
