Stephanie Ijeoma Ladele is the founder of the Environmental Conflict Mediation and Women Development Initiative in Nigeria. She is an environmental activist with experience working on sustainability, community development, mediation and gender-sensitive approaches to climate change. Ijeoma is a member of the Nigerian Environmental Society, Society for Peace Studies and Practice, the Institute for Chartered Mediators and Conciliators of Nigeria, the West African Network on Peacebuilding, and the Civil Society Coalition for Sustainable Development. 

Stephanie Ijeoma Ladele is a member of Women Mediators across the Commonwealth (WMC), a network hosted by Conciliation Resources which connects women with a broad range of mediation knowledge and experience.