Serving Chicago-based KNI Communications as President, experienced public relations professional Sean Tenner assists individuals and organizations in various public interest and advocacy campaigns. Additionally, Sean Tenner is a leader in the fight against modern day slavery who helps abolitionists in the West African nation of Mauritania. Mr. Tenner co-founded The Abolition Institute, a nonprofit working on the forefront of the fight against slavery in Mauritania.
In 2013, CNN published an article written by John D. Sutter that described Mauritania as the world’s last stronghold of slavery. The article told the story of a slave named Moulkheir Mint Yarba, who tends her master’s goats in the Sahara Desert.
One day, Moulkheir arrived home from work to find her baby lifeless on the ground. Moulkheir’s baby was the result of a rape by her master. She suspected that her master killed the baby because he told her that she could work faster without the baby. When Moulkheir asked her master for leave to bury the baby, he told her to get back to work.
The CNN journalists linked Moulkheir, now an escapee, to the “unlikely allies” who helped liberate her - Abdel Nasser Ould Ethmane, a slave master turned abolitionist, and Boubacar Messaoud, a former slave. The two are co-founders of one of the leading abolitionist organizations in Mauritania, SOS Slaves.
In 2013, CNN published an article written by John D. Sutter that described Mauritania as the world’s last stronghold of slavery. The article told the story of a slave named Moulkheir Mint Yarba, who tends her master’s goats in the Sahara Desert.
One day, Moulkheir arrived home from work to find her baby lifeless on the ground. Moulkheir’s baby was the result of a rape by her master. She suspected that her master killed the baby because he told her that she could work faster without the baby. When Moulkheir asked her master for leave to bury the baby, he told her to get back to work.
The CNN journalists linked Moulkheir, now an escapee, to the “unlikely allies” who helped liberate her - Abdel Nasser Ould Ethmane, a slave master turned abolitionist, and Boubacar Messaoud, a former slave. The two are co-founders of one of the leading abolitionist organizations in Mauritania, SOS Slaves.