Blake Hutson is a grassroots organizer in our Southwest office in Austin, TX focusing on health care reform. Before coming to Consumers Union Blake lived and worked in the South American country of Guyana. As a volunteer he assisted local groups in community mobilization and organizational development helping locals achieve the dream of home ownership at Habitat for Humanity.

As a graduate student intern at CU Blake worked at the ground level of our health care campaign connecting with activists that sent in personal stories. When the Cover America Tour came around, Blake joined the crew as an organizer and traveled the country for almost four months meeting those same people and many others as Consumers Union aimed to tell the story of real people’s experiences with the health care system.