Jennifer Brea

Activist, Artist, Explorer, Filmmaker, Global soul, Journalist, Producer, Student, World traveler, Writer/Editor

I directed Unrest, a Sundance award-winning documentary film: http://unrest.film and am currently developing a few fiction projects. I also co-founded #MEAction, a global, grassroots organization to build community and help a population that is largely disabled, homebound, or bedbound to advocate more effectively. http://meaction.net. I became a filmmaker after becoming suddenly bedridden five years ago, while I was a graduate student in political economy and statistics at Harvard. I am passionate about film, storytelling, community organizing, and the internet as a powerful social space for the disabled; the intersections of health and the environment, health and women's rights, and health and human rights, and how the medical system can do better.

filmmaking, health and human rights, women's health, medical research, disability rights, and diversity in the film industry.