Temi
Onayemi

Temi Onayemi is a senior associate in Raben's Issue Campaigns and Movements practice and also co-leads the firm's arts and entertainment strategy work. He designs the narrative, cultural, and advocacy strategies that help clients mobilize communities, shift public dialogue, and build coalitions made to outlast a single campaign. Temi's work treats culture and belonging as infrastructure: the foundation on which durable political and social change is built.

At Raben, Temi co-led the bipartisan passage of the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Congressional Gold Medal Act and has contributed to national efforts to diversify the federal bench and the executive branch. His portfolio spans civic engagement, community-centered policy strategy, and narrative development across healthcare access, economic mobility, women's and children's issues, and local ecosystem building. 

Before Raben, Temi served as deputy campaign manager for Nebraska State Senator Anna Wishart and worked for State Senator Megan Hunt. He got his start as a national youth ambassador for No Kid Hungry and as co-leader of ChangeNowLNK — a Lincoln-based policy nonprofit — where he learned to build power close to the ground. He now writes for Raben on culture, belonging, and the work of coalition building.

Outside Raben, Temi spends his free time building MOTH, a platform grounded in a simple premise: the places where community and belonging happen already exist, and the work is to make them easier to reach. It maps that infrastructure across cities from Washington, D.C., to Nairobi. Temi was born and raised in the Chicagoland area and studied psychology and political science at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He is a writer and a reader, a soccer goalkeeper, and a believer in the Amtrak window seat and the parts of the country you only see from it.