Jessica Horn (born 1979) is a feminist activist, writer, poet, and an advisor on women's rights with Ugandan[1] and Malian[2] background.
[3][4] Her work focuses on women's rights, bodily autonomy and freedom from violence, and African feminist movement building.
Horn was born in England to a Ugandan mother[citation needed] and father from the United States, and grew up in Lesotho and Fiji.
She 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.
[9] She 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.