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Michael Blake's Biography

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Full Name:

Michael Alexander Blake

Gender:

Male

Birth Place:

Bronx, NY

Home City:

Bronx, NY

BS, Broadcast Journalism, Northwestern University, 2000-2004

Assembly Member, New York State Assembly, District 79, 2015-2021

Candidate, United States House of Representatives, New York, District 15, 2020

Candidate, New York State Assembly, District 79, 2018

Former Member, Banks Committee, New York State Assembly

Former Member, Correction Committee, New York State Assembly

Former Member, Election Law Committee, New York State Assembly

Former Member, Governmental Operations Committee, New York State Assembly

Former Member, Housing Committee, New York State Assembly

Former Member, Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force, New York State Assembly

Former Chair, Subcommittee on Mitchell-Lama, New York State Assembly

Former Member, Veterans' Affairs Committee, New York State Assembly

Founding Principal/National Consultant, ATLAS Strategy Group, 2013-present

Former Deputy Political Director/Constituency Outreach Director, Iowa Caucuses, Barack Obama Campaign

Former Director of External Affairs, Michigan House of Representatives

Director of Public Policy & External Affairs, Green For All, 2014

Senior Advisor, Operation HOPE, 2014

Senior Advisor, Office of Public Engagement, Presidential Inaugural Committee, 2013

Campaign Manager, Reshma Saujani for New York City Public Advocate, 2013

National Deputy Director, Operation VOTE, Obama for America, 2011-2012

Deputy Associate Director, Offices of Intergovernmental Affairs & Public Engagement, The White House, 2009-2011

Director of National Labor Outreach, Presidential Inaugural Committee, 2009

Michigan Deputy State Director/Political Director, Barack Obama Campaign, 2008

Intern, State Senator Jeff Schoenberg, 2005

Vice Chairman, Democratic National Committee, 2017-present

Member, 100 Black Men of New York

Exhorter, African Methodist Escopial Church

Certified Lay Speaker, United Methodist Church

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