MAR BRETTMANN & REBEKAH FONDEN

MAR BRETTMANN
Business Ending Slavery and Trafficking (BEST)
For ten years, Mar worked as a university professor, teaching and researching on topics of human rights, philosophy, and religion. In her research, she found herself increasingly concerned about the brutal exploitation that takes place through human trafficking.
In 2011, Mar participated in a conversation of human trafficking experts who were advising a charitable foundation on interventions to prevent trafficking. The experts said that businesses were key to prevention yet were largely missing from the national response. BEST was created to fill that gap. As the Founding Executive Director, Mar educates business leaders and provides them with tools to implement socially responsible strategies that prevent human trafficking.
Mar is the author of the book, Theories of Justice. Mar resides in Seattle with her family. She loves to explore the outdoors by foot, kayak, bike, and surfboard.
REBEKAH FONDEN
Business Ending Slavery and Trafficking (BEST)
Rebekah Fonden is an anti- trafficking Consultant and survivor of human trafficking. She is a graduate from the University of Washington, Seattle with a Communication and Business Entrepreneurship degree. In 2019 she attained an internship for the Superior Court in the King County Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Task Force division working with stakeholders in King County and surrounding areas to progress anti-trafficking efforts.
She served on the Seattle Human Rights Commission as the Human Trafficking Task Force Co-Chair, and is the board president of the Organization for Prostitution Survivors (OPS). She also serves on the leadership team of Wase Forward, a Washington initiative to promote policies that enhance support and justice for people in the sex trade. She also volunteers on the leadership team of the PNW Ending Human Trafficking Rotary Charter.
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