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Rachel Blake
Regional Housing Legal Services Associate Director
Rachel Blake is the associate director at Regional Housing Legal Services (RHLS). Rachel’s work is currently focused on issues at the intersection of housing and health. Her career has spanned several states and has taken multiple forms, but it has always focused on issues related to affordable housing. She started her career at Pepper Hamilton, LLP. She joined the Pittsburgh office of RHLS in 2007, later worked for the Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing in Chicago to protect the rights of tenants in foreclosure, and eventually moved to Philadelphia where she rejoined RHLS. Rachel earned her A.B. in sociology from the University of Chicago, her J.D. and an M.A. in urban planning from the University of Iowa, and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.