Joann Horn

Joann Horn is a Yupik Eskimo from the Bill Moore’s Slough Tribe in the Village of Kotlik who has been living in the Village of Emmonak for over 25 years, located in the Yukon Delta Region of southwestern Alaska. Joann lives in Emmonak with her husband, and has five adult children and eight grandchildren. Joann received a certificate in May of 2010 on Rural Human Services from KUC in Bethel, AK. Joann began working in the 1980s at the Emmonak Women’s Shelter as a relief advocate helping women and children, and later as a rural shelter outreach coordinator traveling out to the area villages and educating the community on domestic violence and sexual assault and about shelter services. Joann is now Shelter Director managing and developing Shelter operations and advocacy services representing the Shelter as a member of the Yup’ik Women’s Coalition.