Kevin Hart was hired by Clark County Fire District #3 in 1998. In 2004, he went to work for the Vancouver Fire Department and became a member of IAFF L452, Vancouver. He has served as Shop Steward, Secretary, and Political Action Director. From 2013-2015 he served on the Washington Labor and Industries (LNI) Self-Insurance...
Dave Lamb serves as President of IAFF Local 828, Longview. He is a graduate of the IAFF 7th District Executive Leadership Series Program and serves as the WSCFF 1st District Burn Foundation Representative.
Keven Rojecki serves as President of IAFF Local 1747. He worked for ten years as a WSCFF Legislative Liaison, served as WSCFF 9th District Representative from 2008 – 2022, and currently chairs the WSCFF Health & Safety Committee.
Pat Ellis is the Crisis Center Intervention Coordinator with the Kent Police Department, Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority, Valley 911 Communications Center. He trains and coordinates peer support teams and holds multiple certifications in critical incident stress management, traumatic stress, traumatic grief and line of duty death of an emergency responder. He teaches critical...
Becky Wallen is IAFF Health & Wellness and MERP Trust Consultant for DiMartino Associates.
Chad Blashill is a fire fighter / EMT with the Kennewick Fire Department and is currently the President of IAFF Local 1296, Kennewick and Benton 1 Union Fire Fighters. He was previously Vice President and an Executive Board Member at-large. He currently serves as a service representative for the IAFF 7th District and sits...
Chris Ross served as the president of IAFF Local 2903, Lacey and was elected to the WSCFF Board in 2022. He represents the WSCFF 2nd District, which includes 13 IAFF local affiliates and more than 500 members. He is a graduate of the IAFF 7th District Executive Leadership Series, Class I.
Cherika Carter (she/her) was elected Secretary Treasurer of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO by its affiliated unions in October 2022 and was sworn in to begin her four-year term in January 2023. As Secretary Treasurer, Cherika is the chief financial officer of the council, taking charge of all financial documents and records, overseeing all receipts...
Barbara Byrd worked as a Senior Instructor at the Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon in Portland for 20 years. She served as Oregon’s AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer for 14 years. In her 41-year career, she’s trained hundreds of union leaders across four states, promoted the apprenticeship model of job training, and urged labor...
April Sims (she/her) was elected President of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO by its affiliated unions in October 2022 and sworn in to begin her four-year term in January 2023. She is the first woman to be elected WSLC president and the first Black woman elected to the presidency of an AFL-CIO state...
