Amid rising child labor and diminishing global support, GoodWeave bolsters its team to meet the challenge.

WASHINGTON, DC, USA, May 13, 2025 — GoodWeave International is pleased to welcome into its ranks three seasoned leaders in the global development, workers’ rights, and responsible business fields: Anne-Laure Henry-Gréard as Senior Director of Programs, Sadikshya Nepal as Director of Advocacy and Communications, and Manoli Strecker as Senior Director of Development.

Collectively, they bring more than five decades of global experience and expertise in child and forced labor prevention, human rights, development, and ethical supply chains. These appointments signal GoodWeave’s continued growth and evolution to promote responsible business practices, safeguard childhoods and livelihoods, and protect workers’ rights in global supply chains at the speed and scale required. These executive team members will be instrumental in enabling deeper and broader social impact across South Asia, upholding the GoodWeave label, elevating advocacy and communications efforts, and expanding fundraising and partnerships for sustained global support.

“In a dramatically shifting landscape—where child labor is on the rise, child and worker protections are being rolled back, and support for rights-based development work is under threat—it is not enough to hold the line. We need to lead with purpose. Investing in our team is crucial to our response, ensuring that we have the program, advocacy, and fundraising talent to defend hard-won gains and push for business and government leadership where it is needed most. With the addition of Anne-Laure, Sadikshya, and Manoli, we are far better positioned to meet the moment and surmount the challenge,” says Jon Jacoby, CEO of GoodWeave International.

Anne-Laure Henry-Gréard is responsible for overseeing GoodWeave’s core programming, including inspection, monitoring and certification; child labor prevention and remediation activities; supply chain due diligence and research; and monitoring, evaluation and learning. She previously led major programs in garment supply chains, including the Better Work program — a collaboration between the United Nations’ International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group — in Bangladesh and Madagascar. With extensive experience in labor rights and responsible business conduct, she is committed to advancing social, environmental, and gender justice in global supply chains. A French national, Anne-Laure holds degrees from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is based in Paris, France.

Sadikshya Nepal leads GoodWeave’s advocacy and communications efforts, with a focus on raising visibility for child labor prevention, promoting supply chain due diligence, and influencing policy and practice at national and global levels. Most recently, she served as the Senior International Relations Specialist at the U.S. Department of Labor’s International Labor Affairs Bureau, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking. Her area of expertise is in the worst forms of child labor, forced and bonded labor, changing trends in human trafficking, and labor rights in South Asia. She also acted as a policy advisor for Business and Human Rights at ILAB, where she led stakeholder engagement and policy analysis to strengthen labor rights, due diligence efforts, worker-driven social compliance, and supply chain transparency in South Asia. Previously, she worked as an Immigration Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center where she conducted research on immigrants in the workforce and changing labor trends. Sadikshya is a 2023 ICAP Fellow and a graduate of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. She is originally from Kathmandu, Nepal but is now based in Washington, D.C.

Manoli Strecker leads GoodWeave’ charitable fundraising and helps to oversee all aspects of donor cultivation and stewardship from public and private donors. He is an international development fundraising and strategic partnerships expert with over fifteen years of experience in cultivating donor and partner relationships, leading funding proposals and managing funding pipelines. Prior to joining GoodWeave, he was Director of Business Development for DevWorks International, where he helped secure over $80 million in grants and contracts for the organization. Manoli has lived and worked extensively throughout South and Southeast Asia, including serving as a regional fundraising lead based in Vietnam for SNV Netherlands Development Organization. He holds a Masters in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Swarthmore College. Manoli is based in Washington, DC.

Read more about GoodWeave’s team here.

About GoodWeave International

GoodWeave — a nonprofit organization founded in 1994 by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi — is the leading international institution working to stop child labor in global supply chains through a market-based system and holistic approach. GoodWeave partners with companies and local producer communities to bring visibility to hidden supply chains; protect workers’ rights; provide assurance that products are free of child, forced and bonded labor; and restore childhoods. Look for the GoodWeave^® certification label on rug and home textile products.

Contact:
Jamir Munayco
Office: 202-234-9050
jamir@goodweave.org