To start our 2013-2014 season, our first speaker will reveal an aspect of
photography that many of us know very little about. That is, photography
as an important tool for social change.

Our speaker is Adam Levner, the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Critical Exposure. This interesting organization is a D.C.-based nonprofit that teaches low-income youth how to become effective advocates for school reform and social change using photography and leadership skills. Since the organization’s founding in 2004, Critical Exposure has worked with more than 1,600 students in D.C. and around the country, helping to
generate more than $500 million in new funding for public schools and youth programs.

Before leading Critical Exposure, Adam worked as a fifth grade teacher
and then as a community organizer with Stand for Children in Prince
George’s County, MD. He has also worked as an education consultant for
the Center for Community Change and as a freelance photographer. Adam
attended Tufts University and received a Nonprofit Management
Executive Certificate from the Georgetown University Center for Public &
Nonprofit Leadership. Named one of the Youth Empowerment Coalition’s
“Leading Young Change-Makers,” Adam has been profiled in the National
Journal, Baltimore Sun, Roll Call, and Tufts University Magazine.