Meet Our Founder:

Halima Woodhead is a global human rights for business expert. In August 2024, Halima set out on her own to give brands access to better tools to ensure that their supply chains reflect their values and purpose, and E4HK was born.

She started her career as a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of Labor; then at the U.S. Department of State building human rights diplomacy in Honduras; and spent another ten years at DOL providing strategic advice on business and human rights to the highest levels of governments, corporations, and civil society. As a civil servant, she contributed to and then led DOL’s efforts to include international labor rights in Central America foreign policy under the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations. Along the way, she led award-winning teams and unlikely coalitions to creatively disrupt the idea that human rights and profit can’t coexist.

Halima is a licensed attorney (although E4HK is not a law firm) and holds a J.D. and M.A. (International Affairs) from American University and a B.A. from the University of Arizona (Comparative Politics).

Halima speaks fluent English and Spanish, thanks to a bilingual public education in her hometown of Washington, D.C. She resides in Asheville, N.C.