Henry, who serves as assistant general counsel at Kimberly-Clark Corp., co-founded an official nonprofit organization—The NEW Roundtable—with the mission of empowering African-American woman lawyers, enhancing their careers and influencing the wider legal profession to improve hiring, retention and promotion of black women. (NEW stands for Network of Empowered Women.)

The NEW Roundtable focuses on empowering its members—a mix of private practitioners and in-house counsel—by forming relationships with each other that provide key mentorship opportunities and lead to work referrals. In the five years since it was founded, the organization has grown from 25 to 90 members and has received numerous requests from African-American lawyers—both men and women—to allow them to open chapters of the nonprofit in their own cities.