“Our team is passionate about serving and loving our community well.”

REBECCA STANLEY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Becca Stanley is co-founder and Executive Director of Blueprint 58. She has eleven years of experience working with youth, and a degree in child development from the University of Georgia. She and her husband Adam are high school sweethearts who lived in the suburbs together for four years before moving downtown to Adair Park. They have three children of their own (Jayci, Caden, and Isaiah), along with many youth who have found a safe place to land with their family throughout the years. She loves cheese dip and diet coke, reading and photography, and is particularly passionate about both community development and loving your neighbor.

ADAM STANLEY
FOUNDER & SPORTS COORDINATOR
Adam Stanley is a high school chemistry teacher turned community builder who has recently returned to his roots by teaching science at the neighborhood high school. An enthusiast and visionary, Adam has led Blueprint 58 through everything from starting sports programs to implementing parenting curriculum. He loves the outdoors and adventure, baking cakes and woodworking. Through teaching, leading the high school boys’ Bible study, and running the football program, he works hard to build community and educational opportunity with students and their families in the neighborhood.

MADI HELLSTEN
MENTOR COORDINATOR
Madi is the Mentor Coordinator at Blueprint 58. She is a graduate of Georgia State University where she studied psychology and sociology. She began volunteering as a mentor with Blueprint in 2015 and continues to spend time with her mentee. Madi has worked with youth in Atlanta for 5 years ranging from church youth group to refugee resettlement. She is passionate about social justice and loving her neighbors, and is a large advocate for women’s rights. Madi is a lover of queso, a Harry Potter enthusiast, and adventure seeker. She enjoys traveling and writing and performing music in her spare time.

TAKIA LAMB
DEVELOPMENT & PROGRAM COORDINATOR
Takia Lamb is the Development & Program Coordinator at Blueprint58. She received her BA in Psychology from Spelman College and her MSW from GA State University. Takia has worked with children around Atlanta in several different capacities including but not limited to: Camp Counselor, After-school Teacher, Youth Ministry Leader, and DFCS Case Worker. She has also held other positions in nonprofit management with a focus on Strategic Planning, Development, and Marketing. One of her major roles at Blueprint58 is to facilitate the young mother’s program, Five8FMO, in addition to Grant Writing. She is a wife to Ro Lamb and a mother to four boys — Trio, King, Zion, and Austin. Takia loves eating (pretty much everything), Art & Graphic Design, Organizing & Strategy, and Photography.