Meredith Blake
Producer
Meredith Blake is a Producer, Attorney and Social Entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience in creating social change. Under her banner, Storied Nation, she serves as a Producer and Executive Producer on films and television shows that hold promise for moving the needle on critical social issues. Prior to that, Meredith was the CEO of **[ProSocial](https://www.prosocialconsulting.com/)**, a social impact agency she founded in 2007, helping clients like Amazon Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation create deep impact philanthropic initiatives and social impact campaigns grounded in research with an eye toward sustainability.
Prior to launching ProSocial, Meredith worked as Executive Vice President at **[Participant Media](https://participant.com/)**, where she built the studio’s social action department. One of the highlights of her time at Participant was creating the social action campaign that accompanied the release of Vice President Al Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary, **[“An Inconvenient Truth.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116/)**” Meredith started her career by founding **[Break the Cycle](https://www.breakthecycle.org/)**, a widely-recognized nonprofit organization to empower youth to end domestic violence, which she ran for more than 10 years.
**Meredith has an extensive track record in raising production funding, finishing funds and impact funds for filmmakers as well as providing critical strategic guidance and forging valuable partnerships for some of the most important films and shows of our times.** Each year she chooses several films to contribute to as a Producer, Executive Producer or Impact Producer. As a public speaker, Meredith has served as keynote, panelist and moderator at numerous conferences and events such as the Sundance Producers Lab, Media that Matters, Illuminate Film Festival and the Producers Guild of America. She has also served on the boards of Healthy Child, Healthy World and PS1 Pluralistic School and as an advisor to a number of nonprofit organizations going for second-stage funding and national scale. Meredith is a member of **[Pleiades Network](https://www.pleiadesnetwork.org/)**, an organization that inspires, recognizes, and advances women’s leadership in creating a more sustainable world.
