Carey Averbrook, Speaker

Carey Averbook comes from a long line of Ashkenazi Jews who came to Turtle Island while escaping pogroms in Eastern Europe. Carey wears many hats, including multimedia visual storyteller, communications strategist, Emotional Hygiene Coach, and repairing the village in her LGBTQ Jewish community. Her efforts go toward personal, collective, and cultural healing and remembering or creating stories for other ways of being human. Carey received her MA in New Media Photojournalism from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University, and her BA in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.