Filmmaker Vicki Abeles explores the themes in the film Counted Out, and how we can move beyond the “race to nowhere”

 

Vicki Abeles is a filmmaker, attorney and change agent. She directed the award-winning documentaries Race to Nowhere and Beyond Measure and reached millions of viewers by focusing on social impact. She is the author of the NYT best-selling book Beyond Measure. Additional film credits include Associate Producer on the Sundance favorite Miss Representation (2011) and Associate Producer on Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish (2014). Continuing to bring communities together around the power of stories, Vicki’s work as an Impact Producer for Chasing Childhood and High School 9-1-1, along with producing the national live-stream event, “State of the Kids: Uniting for Youth Mental Health,” has built alliances across the world to empower kids to thrive. Her most recent film, Counted Out, was recently shown in the Monterey Bay area, and exposes the consequences of a society where people are shut out of effective math education, and shows examples of successful alternative approaches to learning.