Ms. Helen Kim Hendrix joined as a Board Member in 2025.

Helen is the Founding Partner of HKH Law LLC, where she counsels clients—including a number of non-profit entities—on corporate, employment and civil rights matters. As an attorney and former non-profit executive, she has over twenty-five years of legal experience focused on advocacy, equity, and community-centered leadership.

Prior to launching her law practice in 2017, Helen began her legal career with a leading Wall Street law firm and then dedicated a decade of her career as a nonprofit lawyer and executive, culminating in the founding of the first Asian American civil rights nonprofit in the Southeast, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta (formerly AALAC) . Throughout her career, she has served as an advocate, lobbyist, and activist for immigrants and refugees. Helen recently served as a community liaison and facilitator for Gwinnett County’s 2022-2023 Comprehensive Human Service Needs Assessment and Strategic Plan, the first such assessment conducted in approximately thirty years, prior to the arrival of Asian and Latino immigrants to the United States.

Helen also remains active in her community by serving on boards of organizations she feels passionate about. She has served as the Vice Chair of Immigrant Hope – Atlanta, a board member of Mosaic (Gwinnett County’s sexual assault center), a member of the Emory University Board of Visitors, an Advisory Board member for the Alliance Theatre, the Program Co-Chair for the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers, an Editorial Advisory Board member for Atlanta Magazine, Program Chair for the Gwinnett County Democratic Party, and as founding board member of the Korean American Bar Association of Georgia, among other roles.

Helen, a first-generation immigrant from South Korea, moved with her family to the U.S. at age four and grew up in Columbia, South Carolina and then Atlanta, Georgia. She lives in Atlanta with her husband Glenn and daughter Vega, and loves to travel and hike in her free time.