# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jessica-horn
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:03:45.462Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jessica-horn"
name: "Jessica Horn"
slug: "jessica-horn"
description: "Jessica Horn is a feminist activist, writer, poet, and an advisor on women's rights with Ugandan and Malian background. Her work focuses on women's rights, bodily autonomy and freedom from violence, and African feminist movement building. She is also a leader in philanthropy. Jessica Horn 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. In 2021 she was appointed Regional Director of the Ford Foundation's East Africa office based in Nairobi, the first African woman to hold this position since the office opened in 1963."
tagline: "Ugandan writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jessica_Horn_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1979"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.25
  momentum:             3.409090909090908
  historical:           8.141541333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jessica_Horn"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "جيسيكا هورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "جيسيكا هورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Horn"
    title: "Jessica Horn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Horn"
    title: "Jessica Horn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Horn"
    title: "Jessica Horn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Horn"
    title: "Jessica Horn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Ejjembe"
    title: "Jessica Ejjembe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Horn"
    title: "Jessica Horn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%A7_%DB%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "جیسکا ہارن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18687836"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump