Sas Carey is a registered nurse, healer, educator, writer, and filmmaker. Following her first trip to Mongolia in 1994, she founded and now directs Nomadicare (nomadicare.org), which supports the sustainability and cultural survival of nomadic peoples by harmonizing traditional and modern medicine and documenting nomadic life ways, lore and heart songs. Her work has been supported by The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, the Vermont Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Community Foundation, the Help for People Foundation Trust, the Lehman Family Foundation, the Three Hearts Fund, and the Mongol-American Cultural Association, as well as individual donors. Sas is the director of three movies about Mongolia: Gobi Women’s Song, Taiga Heart Song, and Steppe Herbs, Mare’s Milk and Jelly Jars: A Journey to Mongolian Medicine. Some are available on Youtube.These films have screened in Mongolia and the United States at libraries, universities, and museums. Sas has worked as a health education consultant for the Mongolian office of the United Nations Development Programme. A Quaker for 50 years, she lives in a brick cottage beside an immense willow tree in Vermont and when not in Mongolia or documenting nomadic life, she spends her time swimming, kayaking, knitting, and visiting with her children and twin grandsons.

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