HOPE CHILOKOA-MULLEN Racial justice campaigner
Hope Chilokoa-Mullen is a community organiser and campaigner working towards racial justice and the dismantling of harmful systems of power. A descendant of colonised people in Nigeria and Ireland, Hope draws inspiration from historic and ongoing anti- colonial resistance movements.
‘Growing up with an acute awareness of inequality and racism, you have the choice: to accept these conditions or refuse to accept that your community should continue to be treated this way,’ she says. That refusal guided her into activism focused on the structural roots of racism, particularly within education, borders, policing and prisons in the UK. In her previous role at the 4Front Project Hope supported young people facing police criminalisation, school exclusion and housing insecurity. A key project was her involvement in the Erase the Database campaign, led by 4Front, Unjust and Tottenham Rights, which successfully dismantled London’s racist Gangs Matrix database in 2024. Hope continues
to resist the expansion
of digital policing through groups such as the Safety Not Surveillance coalition. ‘Predictive policing [using data to attempt to predict future crime] is always going to most acutely impact marginalised communities, particularly racialised people already targeted by the police,’ she says. Hope’s work includes collaboration with Amnesty on the PredPol campaign and a high-profile action at a
National Police Chiefs’ Council conference opposing facial recognition technology. More recently, Hope has been working with collectives including No More Exclusions and the Action Against Detention and Deportations coalition. Through No More Exclusions, she is working to end school exclusions and fighting for free, inclusive library education for all.
Hope says she is motivated by cross- movement building – ‘none of us can do this alone’ – and by the belief that hope is a discipline: ‘We have to choose to believe that we can make a change.’
‘We have to
choose to believe that we can make a change’
She began blogging in her 20s, at first about fashion, then later about her experiences of illness and disability, before turning to how ‘politics and media destroy the lives of people like me’. She founded the online publication The Unwritten, giving disabled people space to tell their stories. Now a journalist at The Canary, Rachel exposes welfare policy harm, media ableism and government narratives demonising disabled communities. She champions accessible activism, leading an online campaign during the Welfare Not Warfare protest. In 2024, she was one of only
two disabled journalists at the UN Committee on the Rights of Disabled People examining the UK government’s treatment of disabled people, which led to commitments on co- produced policy.
Rachel co-founded the Taking the PIP campaign, which fought against proposed benefits cuts in 2025, and is active in Crips Against Cuts North East and local politics. ‘This year my focus is exposing how the government turns the public against us. I want to make sure disabled people don’t feel ashamed of who they are.’ n
‘I want to make sure disabled people don’t feel ashamed of who they are’
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