Blake Blanchard

A few things about me:

• PR & Marketing Associate at VirtualTourist.com, a TripAdvisor Media Group company. I work on PR and Marketing initiatives, manage site-wide Community events, as well as handle the company's social media accounts.
• My writing has been featured in Elle magazine, the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, MSNBC.com, Yahoo!, Reuters.com, Los Angeles Times, Boston.com, and Vancouver Sun.

• I’m that girl who is a chair of a committee for her high school reunion. No, seriously, I’m the chair of the Planning Committee for the Phillips Exeter Academy Class of 2002 10 year reunion.

• In my spare time, I’m a member of a monthly book club with fellow Duke grads, I love Happy Hour Spinning at Equinox, and my ideal vacation is either a beach destination with lots of water sports or strolling the streets of a European city I’ve never visited before!

• I reside in Santa Monica, California, with my 12 lb rescue pup, Rudy, but I’m East Coast Born-and-Bred. I will cheer for the Lakers, but the only sports team that ever causes me real emotional turmoil are my Boston Red Sox.