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Lacey Horn is CEO of Native Advisory LLC and is a member of the Cherokee Nation. A graduate of Southern Methodist University (Bachelor of Business Administration: 2004, Master of Science in Accounting: 2005), she has spent time with Hunt Oil, as a Senior Audit Associate at KPMG Chicago, and mentor to Native youth and emerging financial professionals. Native Advisory LLC is a consulting firm dedicated to serving tribal Nations and individuals, located in Sequoyah County, on the Cherokee Nation Reservation.[1] She is also the founder of the Native Opportunity Zone Fund LLP.[2]

Lacey Horn grew up learning small business beginning at age four in her paternal grandmother’s lumberyard in the small community of Vian, Oklahoma. In 2011 and at thirty years old, she was appointed as the Treasurer for the Cherokee Nation. Horn advised the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury’s Tribal Advisory Committee on tribal taxation, training of Internal Revenue Service field agents and technical assistance to Native financial officers.[3] Horn expanded the Cherokee Nation’s health care system, which is the largest of its kind, she has authored two pieces of national legislation, and overseen a budget that grew from $600 million to $1.2 billion.[4] She helped upgrade the Nation’s bond rating, promoted financial transparency and disclosure, and received numerous “Excellence in Financial Reporting” awards from the Government Finance Officers Association.[5]

Horn appeared in Oklahoma Magazine’s “40 Under 40” in 2012 and was named “Executive of the Year” in 2014 by the Native American Finance Officers Association.[6] She received Southern Methodist University’s Emerging Leader Award in 2017.[7]

In 2019, Lacey Horn left her post with the Cherokee Nation and launched Native Advisory, in addition to founding the Native Opportunity Zone Fund LLP and Horn CPA, a cryptocurrency consulting firm serving tribal communities and individual tribal citizens. In 2022, Native Advisory announced it achieved B Corporation certification.[8] Horn has dedicated work to educating women and tribal Nations about creating generational wealth and incorporating cryptocurrency into financial sovereignty frameworks. Horn is involved with the Native American Rights Fund and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and continues to promote tribal issues such as power connectivity and healthcare.[9][10]

Lacey Horn is married to Jerry Caughman and the couple has one son.[11]

Further reading

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  1. ^ "Woman-owned, Native-owned financial consulting firm Native Advisory achieves prestigious B Corporation status". 13 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Breaking out on her own".
  3. ^ "Cherokee Nation treasurer stepping down in May". 29 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Breaking out on her own".
  5. ^ "Cherokee Nation Treasurer appointed to committee". 4 January 2016.
  6. ^ "Lacey A. Horn '04, '05".
  7. ^ "Breaking out on her own".
  8. ^ "Woman-owned, Native-owned financial consulting firm Native Advisory achieves prestigious B Corporation status". 13 December 2022.
  9. ^ "Breaking out on her own".
  10. ^ "RES panel highlights 'once-in-a-generation opportunity' to transform energy sovereignty". 10 April 2023.
  11. ^ "Breaking out on her own".
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