Liz Blake
Liz Blake is the President of the Blake Family Foundation which she created with her husband, Frank Blake, and is the Founder of The Liz Blake Giving Fund. The Liz Blake Giving Fund focuses on two generation approaches in Atlanta to impact the lives of women and their infant children, prenatal to third grade, supporting early childhood education, financial empowerment and mental and behavioral health. Liz currently serves as a Board member of Green Brick Partners, Inc. (GRBK NYSE) and two private companies.
Liz has served on numerous charitable and civic boards, chaired the development of a $92 million performing arts center and was appointed by the Governor of Ohio to the Ohio Board of Regents of which she served as the first woman chair. Liz currently serves on the Boards of the Westminster Schools, the Emory University-Children’s Healthcare Pediatric Research Institute, the Marcus Autism Center, Enterprise Community Partners and Skyland Trail. Liz is on the Carter Center Board of Councilors and in December 2016, concluded a one-year appointment as Chair. Liz recently stepped down as chair of the Cadasta Foundation, a technology platform for global land rights and as a board member of the Partners in Health Foundation. Liz served for ten years as a member of the System Board (the governing board) of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Liz served as the SVP of Advocacy, Government Affairs and General Counsel of Habitat for Humanity International, Inc. for approximately ten years. Since her retirement, Liz has continued as a Habitat volunteer with a focus on land rights and economic development projects in Haiti. Prior to Habitat, Liz practiced corporate law for thirty years and served on the boards of three other public and two private companies.
Liz earned her law degree from Columbia University School of Law where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and her undergraduate degree with honors from Smith College. She resides in Atlanta with her husband Frank, where they enjoy spending time with their blended family of five married children and ten grandchildren.