Carrie Blackwood
25+ years of experience and knowledge in workplace law, organizational leadership, political advocacy, institutional representation, complex multi-party dispute resolution, negotiation, and labor relations. Representing governmental entities, labor unions, non-profits, businesses, and employees.
Her prior experience includes acting as Senior Legal Counsel representing a professional aerospace union consisting of nearly twenty-three thousand professional aerospace workers, over a decade of Lead Labor Negotiator experience, and service as the Director of Training and Development for thousands of public sector professional and technical employees in Washington and Oregon.
- State of Washington, 2016
- State of Minnesota, 1998 (Inactive)
- Independent Workplace Investigations’ AWI-CHI Certificate holder, 2018-present.
- Certificate of Accomplishment Becoming a Labor Arbitrator, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services, 2016.
- Diversity Committee 2016-2018
- Association of Workplace Investigators
- Washington State Bar Association
- Whatcom County Bar Association
- Skagit County Bar Association
- Latinx Bar Association
- Whatcom Women Lawyers
- WSBA Labor and Employment Law Section
- RE Sources Current Pro-Bono Legal Counsel and Former Board Member
- Law Diversity and Justice Fairhaven College Volunteer and Mentor from 1998 to Present
- Legal Studies Senior Adjunct Professor Western Washington University, Fairhaven College, 2021
- Law Advocates Volunteer, 2018 to Present
- Countless Political Campaigns
- Washington State Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Conference Panelist, 2019
- Candidate for Washington State Senate, 2019
- Labor Studies Senior Adjunct Professor Western Washington University, Fairhaven College, 2019
- Bellingham City Club Panelist- Sexual Harassment and #MeToo- April 2018
- Washington State Bar Association- Decoding the Law: #MeToo- March 2018
- Committee to Elect Judge Cecily Hazelrigg Hernandez 2018