Carla Labat is the Managing Broker for the Long & Foster, Georgetown, Washington, DC office where she currently works with over 70 agents and staff. She has served as a full-time real estate consultant with Long & Foster Real Estate | Forbes Global Properties specializing in residential sales servicing Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia since 2003. Prior to real estate, Carla spent several years in New York in the fashion industry, starting her career in retail store management and later advancing to the position of buyer for handbags and accessories. As the handbag buyer, Carla traveled to Europe to work with top design houses to create exclusive private-label luxury products. Those early years in Manhattan and traveling internationally prepared Carla for her next challenge as a food and travel writer.

Carla authored two books, Satisfy your Soul, a Guide to African American, African & Caribbean Restaurants (Impressions Books, 1996) and Steppin’ Out, An African American Entertainment Guide to our 20 Favorite Cities (Avalon Publishing,2000). Her articles on food and travel were featured in the New York Times, USA Today and various other travel magazines and web sites. Carla learned the importance of community and giving back from her parents, starting at an early age during the time when her father was the Peace Corps director for West Africa and stationed in Dakar, Senegal. This global introduction to the world, along with a year in a Swiss boarding school truly gave direction to the type of person

In addition, Carla serves on the is the local board of National Capital Area CARES (NCA CARES), the local arm of the National CARES Mentoring Movement. Carla has co-hosted multiple fundraising events for, among others, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, the United Negro College Fund, National CARES Mentoring Movement, GSP and Habitat for Humanity. Carla is currently the vice president for the Washington Real Estate Brokers Association (WREBA), the local arm of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB).