Jennifer Brea
From MEpedia, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia of ME and CFS science and history
Jennifer Brea is a filmmaker, activist and ME patient. Along with Beth Mazur, she co-founded #MEAction. Jennifer is also founder of MEpedia and director of Unrest, an award-wining documentary film about living with the illness.
Jennifer was initially misdiagnosed with "conversion disorder" instead of ME; she was permanently harmed after a walk home from her neurologist's office and should have been told to get complete bed rest for her best chance of recovery. [1]
"Unrest" Documentary
Jennifer directed and produced the film Unrest which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2017 and was on the short list for an 2017 Academy Awards.
Articles
- Dec 27, 2017 - They told me my illness was all in my head. Was it because I’m a woman? in The Boston Globe
Talks & Interviews
- May 6, 2018, Interviewed on The ME Show podcast by [[[Gary Burgess]][2]
- May 18, 2017 - Recording of Congressional Briefing on ME/CFS (Slides of briefing)
- January 2017 - TED talk
- January 2017 - Sundance Film Festival - Meet the Artist '17: Jennifer Brea
- January 2017 - Sundance Reel hour one - January 20, 2017 - Interview with Jennifer Brea and Omar Wasow about Unrest (31mins in)
- List of talks and interviews at jenbrea.com
Awards
Learn more
- Wikipedia - Jennifer Brea
- 2016, Women vs. Hysteria No More…
- 2016, The story and stigma of a baffling illness: Jen Brea speaks at TEDSummit
- 2016, Women's Media Center with Robin Morgan
