Addressing the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Board

Together with our Board Member, Ann Ewasechko, who leads HPE’s modern slavery awareness activities, Lisa Kristine addressed the company’s Board regarding forced labor and the technology supply chain, her photography work, and how there’s a person behind every data point.

Companies are not doing enough to eliminate modern slavery from their supply chains. Neither are governments. But some, like HPE, at least, are doing the work required to get there. 

Our partner HPE is using technologies such as AI and blockchain to trace and screen for potential supply-chain exploitation. They’re banning suppliers from using recruitment fees, running human-rights training, and enforcing grievance mechanisms to give workers a voice. They’re joining cross-industry partnerships and multi-stakeholder initiatives to improve the labor conditions deep within their supply chains.

And they’ve installed a hologram of Lisa at their HQ that can answer questions on modern slavery, as well as exhibited her photographs in several key offices around the world. Awareness is not enough. But bringing the human evidence to the table that reminds decision-makers that behind every data point, there is a human being with dreams and goals crushed by the weight of modern slavery, is a driving force for change. And that’s what we’re here for.