Community Organiser, Educator & Artist.
Evolving visions for community healing &
transformative justice.
About Temi
Temi Mwale is evolving visions for community healing and transformative justice. Her work as a community organiser, educator, and artist is an uncompromising commitment to abolition, reparations, and collective care. For over a decade, Temi has driven grassroots change in her neighbourhood while connecting communities across the UK and globally. At the heart of it all, Temi asks: what does true justice, healing and repair look like for our communities? And what will it take to get us there?
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Temi is the founder of 4FRONT, a pioneering community-led youth organisation that, for 13 years, supported young people not just to survive, but to transform. Founded in 2012 in response to the murder of a childhood friend, 4FRONT grew from a grassroots campaign for care into a national force - challenging criminalisation, centring healing and building community power. Through bold campaigns, life-saving support and visionary infrastructure like Jahiem’s Justice Centre - the UK’s first Community Justice Centre, 4FRONT reimagined community safety and exposed the deep wounds caused by the UK’s reliance on policing and prisons - proving that another way is possible. Now in its final chapter, 4FRONT’s legacy lives on. As the organisation transitions, Temi is focused on archiving its lessons, sharing its story, and expanding the possibilities for community-led justice. She remains devoted to cultivating the leadership, knowledge and radical imagination needed to build a liberated future.
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Raised on Grahame Park Estate, Temi began her journey as a community peacebuilder at 16 - and quickly garnered national and global attention. She has led campaigns demanding accountability and reparations for young people enduring racial injustice and families affected by fatal police violence. Her work is grounded in the belief that healing and justice are inseparable - and that liberation must centre those who carry the deepest wounds. With compassion and strength, she nurtures her community through grief while fighting systemic harm with unwavering clarity.
Her storytelling - through writing, poetry, documentaries, and public speaking - reveals the deep scars of systemic harm, urging people to confront injustice while inspiring hope and action for transformation. Her literary work includes co-authoring Harm to Healing: Resisting Racial Injustice in the Criminal Legal System of England and Wales (2023) and contributing to notable anthologies like Loud Black Girls (2020) and Black Joy (2023). Her current work focuses on sustaining community-led movements, exposing the impact of the criminal legal system on communities across the UK, US and Brazil, and amplifying the experiences of those leading justice work.