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CoreyBlake's profile Corey Blake / Male / Member since December 2008 / Last seen 5 months ago

President, Round Table Companies; CEO, From the Barrio Foundation

Corey Blake’s writing and visionary work has been published in Writer and Script magazines, and has been featured on Fox News, NBC5, Sacramento and Co, WGN (2x’s), and in print such as Young Money, Hoy, La Raza, Hispanic Executive Quarterly, MovieMaker magazine, Dance Spirit magazine, Backstage West (3x’s) and Hollywood Scriptwriter magazine. Prior to writing, Corey worked in Hollywood as a commercial and voice-over actor starring in campaigns for McDonalds, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Wrigley’s, Hasbro, Miller, Mitsubishi and the infamous Yard Fitness, where Corey plays basketball naked. Corey also appeared on shows such as The Shield, Fastlane, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Diagnosis Murder, Joan of Arcadia, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch before he produced The Boy Scout and Redirect and directed and produced Gretchen Brettschneider Skirts Thirty and Unsuitable, all for Elevation 9000 Films. He is the co-author of EDGE! A Leadership Story (finalist, National Best Books 2008 Awards) with Bea Fields and Eva Silva Travers, Excalibur Reclaims Her King with Angelica Harris and From the Barrio to the Board Room with Robert Renteria. Corey is the Executive Director of the From the Barrio Foundation. He and co-author Robert Renteria are collaborating with the Chicago Public School District on a curriculum to be rolled out nationwide. An avid speaker, Corey has appeared at the Society of Southwestern Authors, 2008 Wrangling with Writing Conference, the 93rd Annual Missouri Writers’ Guild Conference, the Virginia Reading Association (with Angelica Harris), Screenwriting Expo (Los Angeles Convention Center), Cinespace (Hollywood), Avalon (Hollywood), The Ivar (Hollywood-The Make A Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles), Spring into Romance Writing Festival (San Diego), Jack London Writer’s Conference, and the Midwest Literary Festival (Chicago).

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• Published a new blog post: The weight of Story11/18/09
• Published a new blog post: Why Pursuing Art is Courageous-Even Heroic11/16/09
• Published a new blog post: Day 3: A Question of Color11/13/09
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• Published a new blog post: A Question of Color11/11/09
• Published a new blog post: Alesia Shute and Everything’s Okay: Another Story Inspiring Change11/09/09
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