Jennifer Brea
Jennifer Brea is a filmmaker, activist and myalgic encephalomyelitus (ME) patient. Along with Beth Mazur, she co-founded #MEAction. Jennifer is also the founder of MEpedia and director of Unrest, an award-winning documentary film about living with ME.
Jennifer was initially misdiagnosed with "conversion disorder" instead of ME; she was seriously harmed after a walk home from her neurologist's office when she should have been ordered to get complete bed rest for her best chance of recovery.[1]Jennifer Brea - Canary In A Coal Mine - The Coffee Klatch - Listen @4:00</ref>
In 2012 Jennifer married Omar Wasow[2], a famous TV talk show, film producer[3] and founder of Blackplanet.[4]
Unrest documentary film[edit | edit source]
Jennifer directed and produced the film Unrest which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2017 and was on the shortlist for the 2017 Academy Awards.
Articles[edit | edit source]
- Nov 9, 2017 - I made a film from my bed to show my illness is real
- Dec 27, 2017 - They told me my illness was all in my head. Was it because I’m a woman?[5]
Talks and interviews[edit | edit source]
- Jan 2017, Sundance Film Festival - Meet the Artist '17: Jennifer Brea[6]
- Jan 2017, What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose (TED Talk)
- Jan 20, 2017, Sundance Reel hour one - Jan 20, 2017[7] Audio interview with Jennifer Brea and Omar Wasow about Unrest (31mins in)
- Feb 10 2017, Jennifer Brea: Can The Internet Help You Get The Right Diagnosis? - NPR (transcript)
- May 18, 2017 - Congressional Briefing on ME/CFS[8] (Slides of briefing)[9]
- May 6, 2018, Episode One The ME Show podcast by Gary Burgess[10]
Awards[edit | edit source]
- 2013, ProHealth’s 2013 Advocate of the Year – Jennifer Brea[11]
- 2015, Congrats to ‘Canary in a Coal Mine,’ November’s Project of the Month![12]
- 2017, ProHealth is proud to announce its 2017 Patient Advocate of the Year – Jennifer Brea[13]
Learn more[edit | edit source]
- Wikipedia - Jennifer Brea
- 2016, The story and stigma of a baffling illness: Jen Brea speaks at TEDSummit[14]
- 2016, Women's Media Center with Robin Morgan[15] (Audio)
Online presence[edit | edit source]
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "I made a film from my bed to show my illness is real". BBC News. November 9, 2017.
- ↑ Jennifer Bréa, Omar Wasow
- ↑ Omar Wasow IMDB
- ↑ Blackplanet
- ↑ Brea, Jennifer (December 27, 2017). "They told me my illness was all in my head. Was it because I'm a woman? - The Boston Globe". bostonglobe.com. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
- ↑ Brea, Jennifer (January 18, 2017). "Meet the Artist '17: Jennifer Brea". Youtube. Sundance Institiute.
- ↑ Wells, John; Larson, Nell (January 20, 2017). "Sundance Reel hour one - January 20, 2017". KPCW. 31 min. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
- ↑ Markey, Ed (May 26, 2017). "Congressional Briefing on ME/CFS". YouTube. SolveCFS.
- ↑ "Slides of Congressional Briefing on ME/CFS" (PDF). solvecfs.org. May 2017.
- ↑ Burgess, Gary (April 20, 2018). "The ME Show". ME Association. ME Association. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
- ↑ Verrillo, Erica (January 25, 2014). "ProHealth's 2013 Advocate of the Year – Jennifer Brea". prohealth.
- ↑ Indiewire (December 9, 2013). "Congrats to 'Canary in a Coal Mine,' November's Project of the Month!". IndieWire. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
- ↑ Verrillo, Erica (March 5, 2018). "ProHealth is proud to announce its 2017 Patient Advocate of the Year – Jennifer Brea". prohealth.com.
- ↑ Colman, David (June 27, 2016). "The story and stigma of a baffling illness: Jen Brea speaks at TEDSummit". TED Blog. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
- ↑ Morgan, Robine (2016). "Interview With Jen Brea". Women's Media Center Live.
