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Sunday, April 10, 2011 is Lay Organizations Annual Day. Michael Blake, Associate Director, White House Office of Public Engagement & Deputy Associate Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs will be the speaker.

Mr. Blake worked on the Obama for America campaign, first as Deputy Political Director and Constituency Outreach Director in Iowa and as Deputy Director and Political Director in Michigan. Prior to that, Mr. Blake was the Director of External Affairs for the Michigan House of Representatives serving in Michigan Speaker of the House Andy Dillon’s cabinet. Before that appointment, he successfully co-organized three state house campaigns in the 2006 election cycle. Mr. Blake is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism from Northwestern University. He is also an alumnus of the Yes We Can political training program in Washington, D.C. He started his political career as an assistant for Illinois State Senator Jeff Schoenberg.

In his own words:“I say that I’m a skinny kid from The Bronx, whose family went from no house in Jamaica to The White House in D.C, who was told that I wasn’t smart enough to get into Northwestern, came from an elementary school was referred to having ‘savage inequalities’ and was told that I was silly for moving to Iowa to try and get President Obama elected.” “Fortunately, those who inspired me reminded me that no person can stop what God has in store.”

Metropolitan A.M.E. Church
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Rev. Dr. Ronald E. Braxton, Senior Pastor

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