Jennifer Brea



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.

"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

 * Jan 2017, Sundance Film Festival - Meet the Artist '17: Jennifer Brea
 * January 2017 - TED talk
 * Jan 20, 2017, Sundance Reel hour one - Jan 20, 2017 - Interview with Jennifer Brea and Omar Wasow about Unrest (31mins in)
 * May 18, 2017 - Recording of Congressional Briefing on ME/CFS  (Slides of briefing)
 * May 6, 2018, Interviewed on The ME Show podcast by Gary Burgess


 * List of talks and interviews at jenbrea.com

Awards

 * 2013, ProHealth Advocate of the Year
 * 2015, Indie Wire Project of the Month - November

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

Online Presence

 * Twitter
 * Website