Meredith Blake

1998

Meredith Blake

Break The Cycle

http://www.breakthecycle.org

Santa Monica, California, United States

Health, Legal Advocacy

The Bold Idea:

Break the Cycle is an innovative nonprofit organization whose mission is to end domestic violence by working proactively with youth. Break the Cycle furthers this mission by providing young people, ages 12 to 22, with preventive education, free legal services, advocacy and support. The organization’s law-based prevention and education program provides vital domestic violence information and healthy relationship skills, and teaches youth about their legal rights and responsibilities. Break the Cycle’s early intervention legal services assist young victims of domestic violence in their transition from victim to survivor, offering confidential and free legal advice, counsel and representation to youth experiencing abuse.

Biography:

Meredith Blake is a nationally recognized public interest attorney, advocate and social entrepreneur with twenty years of experience in creating positive social change. She is currently the Founder & CEO of Cause & Affect, an innovative agency working with influencers to create social change movements. In this role, Meredith works with clients to create deep impact philanthropic initiatives and social action campaigns grounded in research and with an eye toward sustainability. Prior to launching Cause & Affect, Meredith worked as a top executive at Participant Productions, a film production company founded in 2004 by former EBay president Jeff Skoll to create movies that are consciousness-raising as well as entertaining.

Meredith has won numerous awards, including the Pathfinder Award from the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, the Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Who Cares Magazine, the Women at Their Best Award from Glamour Magazine, the Jack Berman Award of Achievement from the State Bar of California and the Women Who Make A Difference Award from the Los Angeles Business Journal.

Born and raised in New York, Meredith graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a double major in political science and mass communications. She received her law degree from the UCLA School of Law. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Jeremy and their son Max.