GRACE Commission Members
Stephanie Blank
Board Chair, Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students and President, Naserian Foundation
Stephanie Blank is a longtime advocate for children’s issues in Georgia. She is the founding chair of the Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students and co-founder of Mothers and Others for Clean Air. She has chaired Governor Nathan Deal’s Commission on Child Welfare Reform, served on First Lady Sandra Deal’s Children’s Cabinet, served on Governor Deal’s Child Mental Health Commission, and is currently a member of First Lady Marty Kemp’s GRACE commission (Georgians for Refuge, Action, Compassion, and Education) fighting human trafficking. Blank just completed a term as president of the Atlanta Rotary Club. She served as the chair of the capital campaign to build the Children’s Museum of Atlanta, as past Trustee chair for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta, and on Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s transition team following his first election. She also spent 17 years as a trustee of the A.M. Blank Family Foundation. She currently serves as president of her own foundation.