STANDING OUT AT 4’1 |GET REAL | REFINERY 29 As a 4-foot-1-inch woman living in New York City, Sofiya Cheyenne gets a lot of stares. She’s more than willing to educate strangers on her type of dwarfism – a result of the rare skeletal disorder spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita – but serving as an impromptu spokesperson

EVEN STEVENS SANDWICHES Steve Down, Founder of the Utah based chain restaurant Even Stevens Sandwiches, used his skills as an entrepreneur to turn the food service industry into a force for social good. Even Stevens Sandwiches has four different Utah based locations, the first of which was established in downtown Salt Lake City on June

KARL BERGER IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA DATE: Saturday, November 21st;  last performance in Brooklyn this season LOCATION: Firehouse Space; 246 Street in Williamsburg. The Karl Berger Improvisers Orchestra ends its appearances in Brooklyn, NY this season with a performance on Saturday, Nov. 21 at the Firehouse Space, 246 Street in Williamsburg. Since its inception in 2011, the KBIO of 25

WANDERLUST WANDERLUST is a film about two strangers crossing paths and creating an unlikely bond. Jackson, a world traveler hitchhikes his way to New York, where he gets a ride with the beautiful, yet impulsive, Paige, who is running away. Together, as two lost and wounded souls, they find consolation in each other.  This is

WOMEN WHO LUNCH NY Women Who Lunch (WWL) is on a mission to connect women so that they can share ideas and empower each generation to teach the other. On Friday, December 4, 2015 women will gather in New York under the monthly theme, “The Road to Personal Transformation – And the Roadblocks Along the

THE LULLIPUT TROUPE THE LILLIPUT TROUPE tells the incredible true story of the Ovitz family, seven vaudeville-performing siblings with dwarfism who survived a year in Josef Mengele’s laboratory. Structured as a post-war vaudeville retelling of “Snow White,” the play follows the Lilliputs on their unlikely journey from their home in the mountains to vaudeville stages

THE HUNGER PROJECT   The Hunger Project (THP) empowers women and men to end their own hunger and poverty on a sustainable basis through an integrated, replicable and affordable approach to people‐centered development. THP programs in Africa, South Asia and Latin America provide women and men living in poverty with the opportunity to lead healthy and

HUNTING FOR HEROES Hunting for Heroes (H4) is a 501c3 nonprofit charity organization that provides recreational therapy and counseling services to disabled law enforcement officers disabled or injured in the line of duty. H4H provides an all-expenses paid wellness retreat to the hero, their spouse and their children. Due to the life-changing impact these injuries have

NANA A TRANSGENERATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ON HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR AND ACTIVIST FOR TOLERANCE DIRECTED BY SERENA DYKMAN  Serena Dykman is an award­winning filmmaker based in New York, originally from Paris and Brussels. Her work ranges from comedy to drama and has screened at over 50 film festivals throughout the world including the Cannes Film Festival’s Emerging Filmmaker