Jessica Horn was born on 1979 and is a feminist activist, writer, poet, and an advisor on women's rights with Ugandan and Malian background.
16 Facts About Jessica Horn
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Jessica Horn's work focuses on women's rights, bodily autonomy and freedom from violence, and African feminist movement building.
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Jessica Horn was named as an African woman changemaker by ARISE Magazine and as one of Applause Africa's "40 African Changemakers under 40".
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Jessica Horn joined the African Women's Development Fund as director of programmes in October 2015.
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Jessica Horn completed her international baccalaureate at the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West.
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Jessica Horn earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology from Smith College in 2001 and a Master of Science degree in gender and development from the London School of Economics in 2002.
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Jessica Horn went on to manage funding for women's rights and minority rights at the Sigrid Rausing Trust, one of the largest private human rights funders in Europe.
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Jessica Horn then went on to found Akiiki Consulting, where she worked with human rights funders, policy institutions, and activist organisations, including the Stephen Lewis Foundation, the International Rescue Committee, Action Aid, the Association for Women's Rights in Development, Ford Foundation East Africa, and the United Nations.
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Jessica Horn served as the director of programmes at the African Women's Development Fund from 2015 - 2020, and was appointed Regional Director for the Ford Foundation's East Africa office in 2021, serving until 2025.
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Jessica Horn wrote two monographs on the impact of Christian fundamentalism on women's rights in Africa for the Association for Women's Rights in Development Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms initiative.
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Jessica Horn is the lead author of the Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Social Movements produced by BRIDGE at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex in 2013.
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Jessica Horn worked as commissioning editor of "Our Africa" on openDemocracy 5050 from 2011 to 2015.
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Jessica Horn is a founder member of the African Feminist Forum Working Group.
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Jessica Horn was appointed to the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health.
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Jessica Horn is the author of a collection, Speaking in Tongues, which is included in the collected Mouthmark Book of Poetry alongside work by Warsan Shire, Malika Booker, and Inua Ellams.
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Jessica Horn's work has been featured on the Pan-African poetry platform Badilisha Poetry Radio.