MB Writing and Consulting Group

Mary Blake

Mary spent ten years in the advertising agency business in Kentucky, Ohio and Southern California as a copywriter/producer, serving financial services, automotive, media and retail clients.

Since starting her own creative services business in 1989, Mary’s clients have included Honda, Nissan, Toyota, Los Angeles Daily News, Kinecta Federal Credit Union, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, and Wescom Credit Union, among others. With her writing partner Craig Horning, she wrote a 112-page hardcover book detailing the history of the Hughes Aircraft Employees Federal Credit Union from 1940-2000.

In 2000, she accepted a position as Director of Communications for Braille Institute of America and revamped the organization’s communications function in the areas of media and community relations, graphic design, websites and external and internal publications. She managed a staff of six and a budget of nearly $1 million.

In January 2005, she re-opened MB Writing and Consulting Group to co-author another credit union history book. “Thirteen Men, Sixty-Five Dollars, Seventy Years Later” is the history of Wescom Credit Union and was published October 2006. The history of SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union is slated for completion in early 2009.

Mary earned a B.S. degree in Journalism from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio and has done postgraduate work at the University of Southern California. She is a member of Public Relations Society of America, Los Angeles chapter, and the International Association of Business Communicators, Orange County chapter.