Carey Theresa Graeber is committed to social justice and women's rights, affecting change by being a role model for younger women, an active member of the NYC community, a partner with her husband in a 100-year-old garment business and a documentary producer, telling the stories of important women who have been overlooked by conventional historians. Born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, Carey returned to the city where her family has roots going back to the Civil War. Married for over 40 years to her college sweetheart, Carey raised two boys in Flatbush, Brooklyn at a time when the neighborhood was in danger of coming apart at the seams. Sending her children through NYC public schools, Carey was also president of her neighborhood association. It is no exaggeration to say that Carey's determination was instrumental to the revival in the 1980's of her Brooklyn neighborhood as well as, through her business, of the Flatiron District in Manhattan. Carey was a partner with her husband in Saint Laurie Merchant Tailors, New York's oldest men's clothing manufacturer, still producing in NYC up until 2018. In 1984, they restored the old Lord and Taylor building on Broadway and 20th Street which dated to 1869. Carey has been a member of the faculty of Northwestern University, her alma mater, where she has mentored young men and women who are beginning their career in film and television. Carey was President for many eyars of New York Women in Film and Television, and advocacy group for females in media. Her own documentaries focused on the heroin epidemic, women suffering from chronic pain, and the family backgrounds of the 911 terrorists. Her most important story has yet to be fully told-- that of Matilda Joslyn Gage. Living in the 19th Century, Gage has been described as "the woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time." Gage believed, as Carey does, that women must regain the rights stolen from them by an obstinate patriarchy fueled by the excesses of the Church. Carey remains hopeful that our country and the world are learning from the mistakes of the past. And, that we owe it to our children and grandchildren to build a fairer, more just society.