PIPER HENDRICKS
Piper Hendricks is an advocacy communications consultant based in Washington, D.C. Having chosen a nontraditional career path after law school, the common threads throughout her advocacy career are justice, equality and storytelling. In a variety of formats, Hendricks has employed storytelling with a purpose; whether in the courtroom, on the silver screen or on Capitol Hill, she has championed change to promote opportunity for all. 



After graduating with honors from the University of Michigan law school, Hendricks’ legal career began at the Arias Foundation and later the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica. She then returned to the United States where after several years at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP and a judicial clerkship, she returned to human rights, with a focus on litigation, coalition building and policy.  

After years of litigating before an audience of judges and opposing counsel, Hendricks chose film as the medium to reach the public-at-large about human rights and equality. She founded p.h. balanced films to raise awareness through storytelling and film of important problems facing people around the world - and to inspire action toward solutions.   

Throughout her life, Hendricks has been inspired by the words that Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke on the grounds of the Washington monument in 1959:

  “Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”