Chioma Alade

Chioma Alade is an award winning Practice Lead, Activist, Speaker, Writer, Researcher and Survivor committed to raising awareness about sexual abuse. Alade specialises in cults and ritualistic abuse as well as religious, cultural and institutionally enabled abuse. She has consulted with police officers , charities, social workers, educators and practice leads on the intricacies of spiritual , cults and ritualistic abuse.

 

Alade made history as the first NUS Black student representative elected to a Student Union in the South West of England.

 

She is a member of the React Network at the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse, funded by the Home Office and hosted by Barnardo’s. In 2025, she was selected for Practice Lead training hosted by the Centre of Expertise in Child Sexual Abuse and funded by the Home Office, leading to her launching ByFourteen in 2026.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 

Chioma Alade also serves as a board member of Secrets worth Sharing which holds the world's largest media content library on intersectional child sexual abuse.

 

Her combination of lived experience and specialist practice brings valuable insight to SUUK’s work to recognise and respond to abuse that is too often misunderstood or overlooked.

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