Ann Blake

Dr. Ann Blake is the Executive Director of The Jenifer Altman Foundation. Dr. Blake combines thirty years of experience finding safer chemicals and materials in over a dozen different global sectors of consumer product manufacturing with her passion for economic and environmental justice and systems approaches to the task of building resilient local and regional economies. Dr. Blake was Founder and Principal of Environmental & Public Health consulting for twenty years, focusing on disproportionate exposures among workers in manufacturing and service sectors. From 2015 to 2020 she was part of the leadership team for the Cancer-Free Economy Network.

Dr. Blake holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. in molecular genetics and neural development from the University of Oregon.