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Barbara Horne intuitively springs forth from a family of people interested in maintaining community. She was surrounded by loved ones who had the caring insight to foster a better neighborhood and social climate growing up.
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Barbara Horne intuitively springs forth from a family of people interested in maintaining community. She was surrounded by loved ones who had the caring insight to foster a better neighborhood and social climate growing up.
Creatively, Ms. Horne has synergistically mixed her passions for Black empowerment, Women's UPliftment, technology aplomb, and business engagement from a lens of human rights. Barbara's passion and skills has landed her in a myriad of activist programs and activities with the United Nations.
Given the national crisis the country is in with regards to any semblance of a democracy surviving in the United States, I compelled my BBFF (Bernie Best Friend Forever) to talk to me about if the UN had any influence or plans to help Black Americans, people of color, and marginalized people in the US. My exclusive video interview follows below.
Given the national crisis the country is in with regards to any semblance of a democracy surviving in the United States, I compelled my BBFF (Bernie Best Friend Forever) to talk to me about if the UN had any influence or plans to help Black Americans, people of color, and marginalized people in the US. My exclusive video interview follows below.
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Kamau's Question: Can you tell me a little about your background? Like where you grew up and went to school?
Barbara's Answer: I grew up in New Jersey in a working-class family. Throughout my life, my parents balanced entrepreneurship with traditional jobs. My father was a truck driver who owned his own trucking company, and my mother managed the business before later becoming a home health aide. I attended parochial and private schools on scholarship, and eventually went on to study at Rutgers University.
Kamau's Question: Who or what inspired you to become an activist, technologist, and later entrepreneur?
Barbara's Answer: I was first inspired to become a grassroots organizer by my parents. My mother brought me to volunteer at soup kitchens and took me into the voting booth with her. My father, who regularly cleaned our local park so us kids had a place to play. They were both from the Jim Crow South—my grandfather organized through the Masons, and my grandmother helped build their church. At home, Sunday morning political news shows were common, and I was encouraged to ask questions and think critically.
Attending high school in Princeton while living in Trenton, I became acutely aware of the divide between the haves and have-nots. That experience, combined with taking AP Politics and fulfilling Stuarts Community service requirement in my own community, made it clear to me volunteer work alone wasn’t enough to solve deep-rooted systemic issues.
At Rutgers, I joined the fight to remove President Francis Lawrence after he made racist remarks questioning the intellect of Black Students, during a time when the book the Bell Curve was popular. We protested, shut down Route 18, and event pushed for his resignation. I continued organizing in New Brunswick, focusing on police brutality, unjust local laws, and advocating for an elected school board. I also co-founded a small publishing company to amplify Black women artists and hosted spoken word events. And I’ve remained committed to grassroots organizing ever since.
I turned to Information Technology to make a living—I wanted work that paid well but still left me some autonomy, because I didn’t care for corporate America. I admired teachers and social workers, and many of my friends pursued those paths, but I that wasn’t for me. Instead, I leveraged the tech skills I gained through organizing, formed a business and contracted and subcontracted as a trainer and consultant. It allowed me to earn a living while avoiding the daily office politics and racist microaggressions.
Kamau's Question: How do you balance your tech business career with your international activism?
Barbara's Answer: I just do both simultaneously. I don't really strive to balance them. But I am starting to spend more time taking short vacations and unplugging a bit.
Kamau: Can you tell us how your tech biz and activism can be impactful in this era of the Trump/Musk administration?
Barbara's Answer: I believe it’s essential to center our politics around issues and build coalitions that move us toward the kind of world—and country—we want to live in. That begins with recognizing the value of a more equitable society. We need to uphold Human Rights, push for a Human Rights–based economy, and prioritize justice. Then we must vote in alignment with those values and hold our elected officials accountable.
As we face a constant trifecta of disinformation, misinformation, and exaggeration in an increasingly more complex world we use AI to help us cut through the noise, simplify challenging topics, and better understand how specific issues affect us—without the heavy filtering of mainstream media. For example, you can ask ChatGPT to explain how tariffs work and what their real impact might be on our daily lives.
That’s part of the inspiration behind Ngaage, an impact tech platform I’m working on to help people better understand the true impact of their vote. And if everyone voted and contributed even a small amount of grassroots organizing or volunteerism in their community, we would begin to see meaningful change from the ground up.
Kamau's Question: Does your work with women and the UN give you any hope for strategies to help us survive this techo-oligarchy impacting not only the US but World?
Barbara's Answer: It’s inspiring to see so many women and allies gather in and around the United Nations during CSW, the Commission on the Status of Women. But real change still happens on the ground—through voting, organizing, and prioritizing self-care.
As part of a side event, we hosted a program titled Resilient Her: Navigating Leadership Challenges with Confidence, where women shared their strategies for tackling tough challenges—working with limited resources, overcoming imposter syndrome, and leading with strength despite the odds. (video will be done shortly)
Kamau's Question: what have been some of your greatest challenges in developing your company?
Barbara's Answer: The biggest challenge has been securing funding. I’ve managed this by subcontracting—using that income to build the project in small, strategic phases and gradually growing from there.
Kamau: What is the best way to contact you?
Barbara's Answer: www.barbarahorne.com
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