Nina Smith is an award-winning leader and Principal of Nina Smith Consulting, advising clients on human rights in supply chains; sustainable social enterprises; global governance structures; and multi-stakeholder engagement. Nina was founding Chief Executive of GoodWeave International, where she led the creation and scale of a market-driven model that has restored freedom to hundreds of thousands of children and built the world’s largest global network of companies committed to ending modern slavery in their manufacturing supply chains.
Nina is winner of the Skoll and Schwab Awards for Social Entrepreneurship, the Tufts University Alumni Award for Active Citizenship and Public Service, the Center for Nonprofit Advancement’s EXCEL Award for excellence in chief executive leadership, and the Child Labor Coalition Hall of Fame Award. Nina is a member of Elluminate’s Jewish women’s leadership Collective and board member of the Fair Labor Association and the Better Buying Institute.
To be a hero is to take a risk. Hem Moktan does this every day, facing his brutal past as an enslaved child. He is featured in the documentary film Hem…
With demand for toilet paper and other household items in the headlines, the COVID-19 crisis has made supply chains news, highlighting what disruptions mean to consumers, companies, and workers. This…
Millions of children are forced into labor each year. Consumers at the end of the supply chain often know nothing of the lives of those who made the product; it's…
Made by Children. Instead of Made in China or Made in India, what if this was the label inside the neatly stacked sweaters on a department store shelf? For most…