Jessica Horn

Jessica Horn is a feminist thinker and builder - sharpening our understandings of the root causes of gendered injustice, and co-designing interventions that stimulate systemic change towards tangible shifts in people’s embodied lives. She has worked for two decades supporting activist organisations, funders and the UN to deepen analysis, shape policy and funding, and refine interventions to defend women’s rights to health, bodily autonomy and freedom from violence and build scenarios for feminist futures.

Jessica is a founder member of the African Feminist Forum, and have served on the boards of Mama Cash, Urgent Action Fund Africa, Comic Relief International Grants Committee and the Fund for Global Human Rights. From 2015-2020 she worked as Director of Programmes at the African Women’s Development Fund, Africa’s largest women’s fund, where she led a step-change in the organisation’s strategy and programming to accompany a four-fold increase in budget.

Her writing is published in academic, media and popular platforms including The Lancet, Feminist Africa, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Africa is a Country.

Jessica is a graduate of the Armand Hammer United World College, Smith College and the London School of Economics.