Sign Our Artists' Statement: Take the people without homes and put them in the homes without people.
Learn more about the statement and add your name to those of 282 signators from 88 cities. ... see all signers
End homelessness, don't manage it. Here's how.
1. Stop talking about shelters as housing
2. Overcome the poverty pimps by bringing the voices of the unhoused to the front...Read the 14 steps to end homelessness
We have had 248 artists appear on our Zoom shows
Gill Sotu
san diego writers festival poet-in-residence
Emile Poree
guitarist/singer
Asia Yu
Director, No Easy Props
Chinwe Oniah
filmmaker
Wendy Maruyama
Artist and Furniture Designer
Glynis Phillips
poet
Carla Vega
poet/singer/writer/actor
Key Kool
hip-hop artist with the Visionaries
Alessandra Moctezuma
Mesa College Gallery director / muralist
Adam Manley
furniture designer
Neil Shigley
artist
Matt Sedillo
poet
Charles
poet
Lynne Thompson
Los Angeles poet laureate
Besskepp
Founder of A Mic and Dim Lights / poet
Tony Lepre
guitarist in Attack of the Rising
Jules Muck
graffiti artist
Erniesto Cisneros
author of Efren Divided
Jessica Gallion
poet
Tom Proctor
actor/musician
Fabian Debora
artist/executive director, Homeboy Art Academy
Mary Scholz
singer/songwriter
Audrey Castellon
poet
Joaquin Jimenez
hip-hop artist/studio and record label owner
Rita Dunn
poet / artist / author
Ernie Perez
lead singer of the Boxing Gandhis and founder of Rock A Mole Productions
Harvey Estrada
bassist / music professor at Compton College
Pedro Kos
director of Lead Me Home
Soraya Young-Pen
chalk artist
Andrew McLees
photographer / FrozenWaste.land.com
Eric Nusbaum
author of Stealing Home
Luis Antonio Pichardo
DSTL Arts
Tori Eldridge
author of Dance Among the Flames
Stephanie Serrano
poet / Director "Seeds of Peace"
Thrasher
Author of Head Bangin' Radio
Bhavna Mehta
artist
Bumdog Torres
street photographer
Jenni Alpert aka Cami & her birth father Don
singer/songwriter
Bintu Sol
singer/songwriter
Hanna Kight Witham
Writer
Anna Simone Scott
filmmaker / director of Take My Heart
Cati Porter
poet
Christian Lozada
poet
Sammy Quetzalli
poet
Agente
hip hop artist
James Tyner
Fresno's first poet laureate
Chuck Nunley IV
hip hop artist/filmmaker/broadcaster
Jhoanna Belfer
Bel Canto Books in Long Beach
Kemal Cilengir
StreetwiseLA photographer
Carla Silveira Hernandez
Musical artist
Carolina Rivera Escamilla
writer
Lee Ballinger
author of Love and War: My First Thirty Years of Writing
Rizz Javier
photographer
Mike Liorti
musician/podcaster
Robin Lee Riddell
pottery artist, gallery owner
Randal Fisher
jazz saxophonist
Ryane Nicole Granados
writer
Christina Ham
playwright (Nina Simone: Four Women)
Jason Luckett
singer/songwriter
Sati Kaur
filmmaker
Sal Rosales
rapper
Dona Junta
Beyond the Facade podcast
Kimberly Duran
painter
Iris DeAnda
poet
Joselyn and Don
singer-songwriter duo
Greg Bresnitz
host of food/music podcast
Aaron Estrada
artist (3B crew)
Jessica Kim
Poet
Angelina Saenz
La Palabra / poet
Brenda Vaca
poet
Caesar K Avelar
poet laureate of Pomona
Yago Cura
co-author of Library Stories
Brian Cross (aka BPlus)
author of It's Not About a Salary and Ghost Notes
Hayk Makhmuryan
art worker and community organizer with doodleswithoutborders.com
Madeliene Spencer
Boca de Oro Festival
Tanya Ko Hong
poet
David Davis
author of Wheels of Courage
Michael Schilf
director of Tears of the Field
Mayela Rodriguez
arts program manager, Blue Sky Center
Ruth Nolan
Poet
Jonah Elijah
muralist
Tama Brisbane
Stockton poet laureate
Mike Scully
musician/band leader
Nickie Black
filmmaker
Janet Gonzalez
owner of Innovative Auto / poet
Esteban Escobedo
rodeo trick roper
Miri Hunter
Thought Theater
Scarlett Brais
lead singer, Scarlett and the Fever
Propaganda
poet
Cassandra Lane
author of We Are Bridges / Editor in Chief of LA Parent
Nancy Woo
Surprise the Line / poet
Peppur Chambers
writer/producer/educator
Anita Sugimura
Gizzy Bear Productions / director of Battlefield: Home
Tyrone Stokes
Dope Spot Studios / Pomona
Hiram Sims
Sims Library of Poetry
Alfredo Diaz
artist (3B crew)
Shane Alexander
singer/songwriter
Jeremiah Joe Ocanas
Lone Stars Entertainment
Kate Maruyama
author of Family Solstice
Ra Avis
writer
Stephen Snavely
director of Think Lovely Thoughts
Joyce Logan
Gospel International
Joe Hernandez-Kolski
actor/poet/comedian
Naibe Reynoso
author of How To Fold A Taco
L.A. N8v
hip-hop artist
Brooks Wachtel
TV writer / novelist
Juanita Mantz
writer, podcaster, public defender
Milagro Jones
poet/musician
Tongo Eisen-Martin
poet laureate of San Francisco
Janet Owen Driggs
Director/curator Cypress College Art Gallery
Katie Ruiz
artist
Abel Salas
Publisher of Brooklyn & Boyle / poet
Shana Nys Dambrot
Arts Editor LA Weekly
April Jones
filmmaker
Joshua Silverstein
poet/actor/beatboxer
Jonathan Celiz
musician
The Last Letter
writer/podcaster
Kevin Sandbloom
singer/songwriter
Tina Orduno Calderon
singer/poet
Samira Barragan
filmmaker
Chris Siders
poet / Sand and Sea Productions
Miles Henry
actor/singer
Jim Daichendt
co-curator, Street Legacy: SoCal Style Masters
David Blumenkrantz
photographer
Nyarae Francis
poet
Tricia Lopez
Poet/Podcaster
Diana L. Sanchez
artist
Erica Torres
musician
Shaunte Palmer
The Harmony Project / trombonist
Claire Hannah Collins
director of Hollywood's Finest
Rachel AO
Singer
Nadia Hunter Bey
poet
Margaret Aichele
dA Gallery Director
3sixo
hip-hop artist
Melissa Ritz
Served podcast / Performer
Alexis Rhone Fancher
poet
Andru Defeye
poet laureate of Sacramento
Gustavo Arellano
author/podcaster/LA Times columnist
Anthony Parker
poet
Janelle Brown
author of I'll Be You
Ismael Pineda
percussionist
Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara
singer/writer/poet/star of Emmy-nominated film Con Safos
Jenny Kane
arts connection, san bernadino
Lydia Theron Ware
poet, editor of Cartless
Laura Warrell
author of Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
Cindy Romero
painter/poet
Peter J. Harris
writer
Grant White
filmmaker
Melina Paris
writer at Random Lengths / podcaster
Rusty
singer
Rebecca Contreras
artist
Robyn McNair
Boca de Oro Festival
Oleg Kagan
Co-author of Library Stories
Nikolai Garcia
poet
Sara Harris
Poet
Ivan Salinas
poet
Mike Sonksen (aka Mike the Poet)
author of Letters To My City
Denise Sandoval
organizer of low rider events
Madi Parsley
editor of Drifter
Astrid
poet / author of Through the Soil in My Skin
Stacey Fayant
traditional indigenous tattoo artist
Megan Greenough
singer
Aideed Medina
poet
Jill Carol
wrestling photographer
Deborah Aschheim
artist
Elynar Moreno
Professor of Sociology / Southwest College
Molly Trochez
artist
Andrew Thompson
The Little Gallery (San Bernadino)
Nic Reiner
Poet
Joey Castanon
Sign spinner
Black and Brown Movement
hip-hop crew
True to the Universe
Social justice oriented classic rock band
Allison Moore Adams
painter
Scatterbrain
hip-hop artist
Lizbeth de la Cruz Santana
muralist/filmmaker
Dani Dodge
artist
Virginia Bulacio
poet/photographer
Iz Gutierrez
director of They Call Us Sediciosos
Briana Munoz
poet/writer/Aztec dancer
Steph Cha
author
Kevin Jones
singer
Crystal Salas
Poet
Carvell Holloway
jazz trumpeter / head of music education at Dominguez High School in Compton
WillFlo (William Flores)
Director South Central Arts
Riston Diggs
rapper
Rahman Jamaal
Executive Director of Hip-Hop Congress
Eye Matter
arts program
Hannah Sward
Author of Strip: A Memoir
Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin
photographer
Lee Herrick
Calfornia state poet laureate
Sijia Chen
artist
Mark Pico
singer/songwriter
Joshua Woolen
poet/filmmaker
Taylor Chapin
Murals of La Jolla
Annie Buckley
Executive Director, Prison Arts Collective
Tamara Blue
A Mic and Dim Lights / poet
Kim Estes
actor
Lisbeth Coiman
poet
Ant Black
professor at San Bernadino Valley College / poet
Bryan Medina
former Fresno poet laureate
Roy Williams Jr.
filmmaker / actor
Susan Hayden
author of Now You Are a Missing Person
Max Presneill
Artist/Curator at Torrance Art Museum
Cathy Segal-Garcia
singer/producer
Oscar Magallanes
artist (3B crew)
Sean Hill
poet
Marlene Nancy Lopez
artist
Thelma Reyes
author of Dearest Papa and When The Virus Came Calling
Yenny Bernal
artist
Jamal Hill
Swim Up Hill / champion Paralympic swimmer
Chris Pierce
singer/songwriter
Pocha Pena
Media Arts Santa Ana
Genevieve Anderson
filmmaker
Alon Goldsmith
photographer
Julian Torres
mariachi singer
Vincent Cooper
poet
Armond Kinnard
poet/storyteller
Oscar Martinez
artist
Meetra Johansen
Founder of Huma House
Jimmy Recinos
poet/podcaster
Lou Matthews
author of Shaky Town
Amilia K. Spicer
singer/songwriter
Iona Morris
filmmaker/television and theater director
April Banks
Artist
Joshua Collins
singer/songwriter / street preacher and homeless advocate in Orange County
Marcus Omari
Poetic Reform Party
Raul Pacheco
guitarist, Ozomotli
David A. Romero
poet
Jesenia Chavez
poet
Dale Maharidge
author of Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s
Alixen Pham
Poet
Black Rose
founder of Zoom Black Magic Radio the world's first pirate radio station
Karina Nistal
singer/songwriter
Luis Rodriguez
poet/author
Erin Yoshi
painter
Amos Adelone
musician
Morgan Miller
artist/printmaker
Theo Henderson
We The Unhoused podcast
Alejandro Cohen
Director of DubLab
Jennalyn Alonzo
musician
Alkaid Ramirez
photographer
Jon Bruschke
writer/producer of Change the Game
Jeff Hobbs
Author of Children of the State: Stories of Survial and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
Evelyn McDonnell
writer
Erika Akire Cohn
director of What You'll Remember
Tawnee Lynn
French horn / Tawnee Lynn Music Services
Janna Ireland
author of Regarding Paul R. Williams
Katisse Buckingham
jazz saxophone/flute; soundtrack composer
Artists United to End Homelessness is a trailblazer blazing a path of interconnection and lessons of humanity! -- Sean Hill (Actor/Poet/Speaker from Los Angeles)
