She currently serves as Vice President of Strategy and Impact at Inatai Foundation, where her work connects vision to execution across Washington state's most consequential racial justice and equity efforts. Her portfolio spans communications, policy, advocacy, grantmaking, and partnerships, all in service of a 50-Year Vision that is as ambitious as it needs to be.

Before Inatai, Carmen held senior leadership roles at the AFL-CIO, the NAACP, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and the United States Students Association. She is also a founding member of BYP100. Every room she has walked into has required both rigor and heart, and she has never once been interested in choosing between them.

Outside of her foundation work, Carmen leads CB Strategies and co-founded Can't Stop Won't Stop Consulting, where she partners with foundations, companies, and movement leaders on culture, strategy, production, and experience design. Her focus is on helping organizations build the internal conditions that make good strategy actually stick.

She has produced and hosted programming across radio, conferences, rallies, and events both large and small, and her board work reflects the same commitment. She serves on the boards of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Groundswell Action Fund, and on Sephora's equity advisory.

Carmen is the bestselling co-author of The Empath Leader: Transforming Humanity's Algorithm and the creator of the Care Bear Model of Leadership, a framework built on the idea that care is strategy.

She lives in Seattle with her husband and her dog, King T'Challa. She studied at the University of Pittsburgh. And when she is not helping organizations build cultures worth belonging to, she is behind the decks as CarmenSpindiego.