Jennifer Brea



Jennifer Brea is an ME and CFS advocate while living with ME. She and Beth Mazur co-founded #MEAction. Jennifer is also founder of MEpedia and director of Unrest, an award-wining documentary film about living with the illness. Prior to Unrest, she briefly hosted an online talkshow called Thrive Show.

Jennifer was initially misdiagnosed with "conversion disorder" instead of ME; she was permanently injured 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

 * 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

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

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