Team Peri Step Out of Line

It’s a tale of a Paralympian fighting to compete and successfully medaling in the 2022 Olympic Beijing Games. For Brenna Huckaby, a 3x Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and cancer survivor, the bronze medal won in 2022 is perhaps the most meaningful. Accordingly to Brenna, the medal represents and encourages those who continue to fight an uphill battle of accessibility and inclusion to keep pushing the glass ceiling. Brenna ho...

The one where we did not have to curb our enthusiasm for Maggie Wheeler. She’s real, she’s here, and she’s spectacular. You’ll recognize Maggie as the genius behind Chandler Bing’s muse, Janice Litman-Goralnik (née Hosenstein). Maggie is a children’s book author, actress, voice-over artist, and co-director of the inter-generational Golden Bridge Community Choir. Maggie’s epiphany at the age of eight years old was when she attended ...

Once Dana Blair hit the spotlight, she just knew that she had found her home. From studying dance and acquiring an MBA at Adelphi University to then furthering her education at the Parsons School of Design for Fashion Marketing, she worked behind the scenes in the world of branding and marketing. On a whim, Dana ultimately found herself where she truly belongs, in front of the camera. As a storyteller, it seems only a natural fit f...

Glass ceilings were made to be broken and throughout Dr. Christine Riordan’s education and career, she has done just that. As an undergraduate engineering student, she often found herself to be the only woman in the class. This year Adelphi University is celebrating its 125th anniversary and Dr. Riordan, as the first female president of the university, has had to deal with extraordinary circumstances and has worked tirelessly to en...

A self-proclaimed "Jewish kid who wanted to play professional basketball" turned producer, Brandon Reese, has always stepped out of line throughout his life. Brandon used basketball to explore the world by playing in Israel, Ukraine, Poland, Holland, Canada, and the United States and teaching students the art of b-ball in Kuwait.

After rupturing his kidney in a basketball game in Kuwait, Brandon had to shift gears and focus ...

This episode of “Step Out of Line” is not for the feint of heart. As an entrepreneur in the health and wellness forum, Jay Cardiello, breaks down his three biggest challenges that he has faced so far in his life and how he has climbed out of the pit of despair to become the man that he is today. The raw emotion displayed by Cardiello grabbed our hearts immediately and instantly, we knew how special a person he truly is.

As a Certifi...

Adelphi University alumnus, Michael Sammis always believed that the university was a hidden gem. Throughout his career, he has combined his passion for music with his financial background into a path that has taken him all over the world. Always a Long Islander at heart, an internship through Adelphi provided Michael with the competitive edge over his peers to land his first job. 

As the President of Universal Publishing Production ...

Sam Rosalie says that she doesn’t “always have rays of sunshine coming out of her butt,” but we think otherwise. 

As one of the producers of the Elvis Duran & The Morning Show, Sam began as an intern while attending Rutgers University. Sam worked hard to find her own career path by taking on new challenges and a variety of internships until she found her niche in radio and entertainment. As a huge advocate for mental health/well...

You don’t plan to fail, you fail to plan. Amanda Munz was 23 years old when she decided to pivot and form her own nonprofit The Fashion Foundation, which she set up after methodical planning, training, and earning an MBA. Amanda realized that repurposing designers’ sample products and surplus goods could be used to give back to the children in New York City’s education system.

Amanda’s first big supporter was designer Rebecca Minkof...

Vita Raykhman was challenged with breaking into the competitive beauty industry of hair products by creating and developing an artistic, fun, and inclusive haircare brand. As a Co-Founder and Creative Director of Amika and creative director of Eva NYC, Vita utilizes her fine art skills in her creative position at Heat Makes Sense, Inc. Focused on establishing a community, Vita’s companies strive to focus on the collective to ensure...

In celebration of Josh’s upcoming 5th birthday on October 30th, let’s all be like Josh and be unapologetic with the way you want to live your life. Team Peri fell in love with Josh on TikTok early in the pandemic and things just steamrolled from there. We finally sat down with Josh + Kimberly & Andrew for what seemed like only a few short minutes but in reality, was an entire afternoon, and talked as if we have known each o...

The Melissa & Doug toy company has not always been fun and games for co-founder and entrepreneur, Melissa Bernstein. The trials and tribulations of developing a new business took years of hard work, overcoming mistakes and eventually, transforming into the successful business that it is today. Bernstein has been coloring out of the lines her entire life. Perhaps one can say that Melissa‘s creativity began as a child, making Bar...

Aussie author makes it big in NYC. Coming to New York naive and unprepared, Georgia Clark still managed to find her way to a successful career in writing. This novelist has an undeniable spirit and tenacity which combined with resilience has enabled her to find her literary voice, her life partner and most of all, happiness and purpose.

Georgia experienced what must be a writer’s worst nightmare, being told that a manuscript that sh...