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Social Circus: Women Helping Women

Social Circus is a vastly diverse field, with companies and organizations dedicated to anything from enriching the lives of refugees to empowering disadvantaged youth, or from helping special needs children develop life skills to aiding women in overcoming difficult backgrounds.
with companies and organizations dedicated to anything from enriching the lives of refugees to empowering disadvantaged youth, or from helping special needs children develop life skills to aiding women in overcoming difficult backgrounds. I knew I wanted women to be the focus of my first article in this series, and specifically I wanted to explore circuses run by women that are helping other women. As #metoo has swept the western world, I was curious to see what has been done before this has become such a widespread phenomena, and what developments are happening as society’s awareness of women’s issues grows. Circus Kathmandu, Empowering Survivors of Human Trafficking A big catalyst for this article was the documentary film “Even When I Fall...
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Stav Meishar

Stav Meishar was born and raised in Israel and leads a double life all around the world, mostly in New York City. During the day she runs Dreamcoat Experience, an award-winning nonprofit organization for arts-driven, experiential Jewish education. At night she is a writer and stage artist specializing in circus and theater. Sometimes, when she's lucky, she gets to be both at the same time – like with her most recent project, a solo performance based on the true story of a Jewish acrobat woman who survived the Holocaust by hiding and working at a German circus. Stav is committed to pursuing the gestalt of circus, history and education, but is incapable of committing to a single hair color.