Jessica Horn

Jessica Horn is an African feminist activist, writer, poet, and technical advisor on women’s rights with roots in Uganda. Her work focuses on women’s rights, bodily autonomy and freedom from violence, and African feminist movement building. She was named as an African woman changemaker by ARISE Magazine and as one of Applause Africa’s “40 African Changemakers under 40”. She joined the African Women’s Development Fund as director of programmes in October 2015.
Horn was born in England to a Ugandan mother and father from the United States and grew up in Lesotho and Fiji. She completed her international baccalaureate at the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West. She 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.