Blog Writers

Meg Bohne, Campaign Organizer

Meg is a Campaign Organizer in the West Coast Office. She comes to Consumers Union with seven years’ experience as a community activist, advocate and organizer who has worked issues spanning public health, the environment, consumer protection, workers rights, health care, higher education funding, senior issues, and – now – prescription drug safety.

Meg worked for the New York Public Interest Research Group on Long Island as a Project Coordinator and in New York City as a Regional Supervisor. After relocating to California in 2005 she teamed up the campaign for Prop. 79 to promote a statewide ballot initiative for more affordable prescription drugs, and then continued work on prescription drug, Medicare Part D and other health care issues with the Congress of California Seniors in Sacramento.

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Liz Foley, Campaign Organizer

Liz was born and raised in Staten Island, NY and joined CU in March 2005 as a Campaign Organizer with PrescriptionforChange.org. Before joining CU, she worked as a Regional Supervisor and Campus Organizer in New York City for the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) for three years. In the time leading up to the 2004 election, she was the Pennsylvania Transportation Coordinator for America Coming Together (ACT) for their Election Day “Get out the Vote” efforts.

Liz also spent a year teaching English in Quito, Ecuador and doing development work in the Amazon. She also worked for a Member of Parliament in London, England. Liz received her Bachelor’s degree from Siena College in Albany, NY. She currently resides in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

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Bob Williams, Strategic Resource Director

Bob is a strategic resource director and head of the HearUsNow.org web site located at Consumers Union's Washington, DC office. Bob came to Consumers Union in July 2006. Prior to joining CU he was a project director and investigative reporter with the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, DC. While there he headed a one year project on the oil industry that received the 2005 Society of Professional Journalists award for online investigative reporting. He also supervised or played a leading role in several other CPI projects that won national journalism awards. Prior to that he was a reporter at the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., where he covered everything from hurricanes to hog waste. He was part of a team that won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting on the hog industry in North Carolina. He also led the paper's coverage of Hurricane Floyd, which was a Pulitzer finalist for breaking news in 1999. Before joining the News & Observer, he worked for Crain's Communications as a Washington correspondent and operated his own business, publishing real estate newsletters. He has won numerous national and regional journalism awards and has conducted several seminars at the national conference of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.

He was a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in 2001, and was a member of the first class of ethics fellows at the Poynter Institute, also in 2001. Williams is a graduate of Radford University in Virginia, where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism.

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Blake Hutson

Blake who is taking the summer off from his graduate studies in political science to drive an RV across the country. From Austin, TX, Blake's background includes international development work in the South American country of Guyana.