Bevin Horn grew up in south Florida and in Chicago. She loved to explore the natural areas in Biscayne Bay, the Everglades and later the prairies and forest preserves in the Chicago area. Before graduate school, she did legal and contracting work on Superfund and RCRA Clean-up programs. She worked for Dade County, Florida on advanced identification projects in wetlands areas and did field work in the Everglades while completing her graduate degree.

Next, she went to EPA to completed the Presidential Management Fellows program. Bevin’s career at EPA was as a sustainability and environmental governance leader with a record of accountability for complex, multi-stakeholder programs, aligning funding, policy, and partnerships across federal, Tribal, state, and local levels to deliver Clean Water Act, coastal, and community-based outcomes. Bevin’s work included several of EPA’s programs at Headquarters and Region 5 in Chicago on cross media impacts such as in the Southeast Chicago-Northwest Indiana.

Later she moved with her family to EPA’s Regional Office in Seattle and was a team leader and Program Coordinator/Project Manager for large-scale Basin wide watershed restoration projects, the Regional National Estuary Program, and later was the Regional lead for the Urban Waters Program in the Green Duwamish Watershed. For many years she was a grants manager, a process/meeting facilitator, and the Regional WaterSense Coordinator.

Her final role at EPA was in the E-Enterprise program in EPA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer, a partnership of EPA Senior Leadership, State Environmental Commissioners, and Tribal leaders to advancing modernization of environmental programs through a shared decision-making structure. 

Bevin completed Managing by Network in 2025, presenting a case study on the partnership work in the Green Duwamish Urban Waters Location and earned an Honors Certificate. The work of the Academy was so impactful on her she wanted to continue engaging in this community of practice. She also facilitated a 6-month process last year to bring some of the MbN practices to the EPA Urban Waters Locations Ambassadors.

Bevin lives in Edmonds, WA and enjoys yoga, meditation, walks with her dog in local parks, gardening, volunteering as docent at a local art gallery and being a member of her Spanish conversation group.