Jessica Horn

Biographical Information
"Jessica is a writer, women's rights activist and founder of Akiiki Consulting www.akiiki-consulting.org. As a consultant and activist she has worked with NGOs, progressive donors, the UN and community-based initiatives around advancing sexual rights, ending violence against women, supporting women living with HIV and ensuring women’s rights in post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding. Prior to founding Akiiki Consulting, Jessica managed funding for women’s rights and minority rights at the Sigrid Rausing Trust, one the largest private human rights funders is Europe. She is also the former coordinator of Amanitare- the African Network on Sexual and Reproductive Rights. Jessica currently serves on the boards of the international women’s fund, Mama Cash and is an advisor to the journal Development. She is a founder member of the African Feminist Forum Working Group.

"As a writer, Jessica engages issues of women's bodily integrity and autonomy and feminist approaches to human rights in the African context. Jessica is co-editor of Voice, Power and Soul: Portraits of African Feminists, which profiles 79 African feminist leaders involved in the African Feminist Forum. She is also a published poet.

"Jessica holds an MSc (Distinction) in Gender and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA (Magna Cum Laude) in Anthropology from Smith College, Massachusetts, USA. "


 * Director, Urgent Action Fund-Africa