Michelle Blake is a native of Marin county who attended college at UC Santa Barbara where she earned a BA in Business Economics in 1985. Michelle worked for Coopers & Lybrand in San Francisco for 6 years, earning her CA CPA license. In 1993 she became a founder of Provident Funding Associates, a bay-area headquartered, nationwide mortgage lending and servicing company, serving in a variety of capacities and then as Chief Financial Officer from 2000 to 2009. Michelle currently works for Provident and a number of its affiliates as Chief Administrative Officer. Michelle and her husband, Garrett, moved from their long-time home in Redwood City to Geyserville in 2015. Michelle was a Board of Trustees member at Santa Catalina School in Monterey from 2013 to 2020 where her two daughters attended high school as boarding students, and she now serves on the Finance Committee of the Board.  Since moving to Sonoma county, Michelle was involved with Habitat for Humanity as a business office volunteer from 2018 to 2020.