Carrie Blackwood

Carrie is a founding Partner of BQB and the Director of the Everett International Federation of Professional and Technical Employees, Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, Local 2001. She brings three decades of expertise in strategy development, institutional representation, political advocacy, labor relations, negotiation, complex multi-party dispute resolution, equity, organizational leadership, and workplace law.

With experience including representing governmental entities, judges, courts, first responders, engineers, doctors, academics, labor unions, non-profit organizations, businesses, and others. Advocating before the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Public Employee Relations Commission, the Washington State Human Rights Commission, the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, Labor Arbitrators, the U.S. Department of Wage and Hour Division, and others. Her career includes a focus on labor and employment law, inclusive of counseling, training, negotiation, best practices, discipline, civil rights compliance, workplace investigations (AWI Certificate Holder), and conflict resolution (completing the FMCS Arbitrator Training). On a personal note, she has also walked the Camino Del Norte, studied international criminal tribunals at their inception, educated others at the university level, mapped territory to protect indigenous land rights in the Amazon, was on a TV show promoting the lowering of our carbon footprint, ran for state senate, is passionate about adventure seeking, and continues to work towards building stronger communities by advocating for immigrant rights, the end of incarceration, access to justice, and equity at work.