Henok holds an LLB degree from Addis Ababa University with very great distinction. He is currently serving as In-House Attorney and Project Officer at Ethiopian Labour Rights Watch, which is the first CSO in Ethiopia specialising on labour rights issues. He also volunteers at Addis Ababa University’s Legal Aid Centre to provide legal assistance to indigent clients.
He hopes that attending the LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA) program at the University of Pretoria Centre for Human Rights will enable him to acquire the substantive knowledge, versatile skills and valuable networks necessary to work in the human rights field and contribute towards the betterment of human rights conditions in his country.