Quincy Brown — aka Pastor Blue — is a longtime street pastor who harnessed his own homelessness lived experience to build Blue Hollywood Street Sanctuary, and grow it into the operation it is today. Pastor Blue provides organizational oversight and can still be found at the community center daily, meeting spiritual, physical and social needs as they arise and via his "boots-off, feet-in-the-mud" leadership style, sweeping and cleaning the streets daily while belting out gospel songs. The resident Bones Boss, he dares anyone to beat him in Dominoes.

Amelia Rayno is a bilingual guerrilla journalist and organizer who has lived in and documented marginalized communities across the Americas. Involved with Blue Hollywood Street Sanctuary since 2020, she provides administrative oversight and program management in addition to the on-the-ground outreach and casework she delights in. Rayno currently lives out of her van in Skid Row, and can be seen doing yoga in the ‘Holy of Holies’ every morning.

Rico Solomon is an LA (South Central) native who has been spending time in the Skid Row neighborhood — a place he describes as “fascinating and continually changing” — since 2014, and has since become a known face throughout the area’s extensive micro communities. The in-house grill master, Solomon also writes a regular column (coming soon to our blog!) filled with stories and reflections from the never-dull days in Skid Row.

IAMFAITH is a non-binary artist, medical assistant and social advocate who spent four years as a hospital corpsman in the Navy and has dreams of building an inclusive bed and breakfast and a trans-affirming hospital. Always the most colorful person on the street, IAMFAITH says “community giving is threaded” in their DNA, and often shows up with home-cooked dishes like steak tacos or chocolate waffles for the staff and community.

Mo, an Eastside LA native, has held a lot of roles in his life — from DJ to plumber to barber, but perhaps the one that has stuck the most is his affinity for community-based work in the streets. Working in non-profits for 30 years — including his own, Each One Teach One, an organization that focused on gang intervention in South Central — Mo continues to give back at Blue Hollywood. Every Thursday, Mo gives our participants free haircuts and shaves, serving up dignity with a soundtrack and a smile.

Jeffrey McGee, a Harlem, NY-native nicknamed “Jazz,” has been in the Los Angeles area since the late 90s, when he came to California to get sober and wound up as a drug counselor. “The best are the ones who lived it,” he says, “the ones who were addicts themselves.” But in 2018, personal tragedy struck, and brought him to Skid Row to live. Jazz says he came here to kill himself, but found community instead. These days, he works hard to feed that community. A spoken word artist, Jazz is also helping to plan an upcoming open-mic night at BHSS.