Who We Are

Board of Directors

Keith Bickel, Senior Director, Corporate Strategy, Freddie Mac
Ryan Compton, Senior Associate, DLA Piper
Nataki Reynolds Gregory, Director of Leadership Development, DCPS
Avni Gupta-Kagan, Senior Director, EPIC-DC Partnership, New Leaders
 John Kern, Manager, Deloitte Consulting, LLP
 Adam Levner, Executive Director, Critical Exposure (Ex Officio)
Rebecca Renard, Director, Inquiring Minds Consulting
Heather Rieman, Senior Policy Advisor, US Dept. of Education; Co-Founder, Critical Exposure


Dr. Fred Frelow, Program Officer, Ford Foundation (Emeritus, Founding Member)
Dr. John Jackson, President, Schott Foundation for Public Education (Emeritus, Founding Member)
Eliza Leighton, Director of Strategic Initiatives, CASA de Maryland (Emeritus, Founding Member) 

Adam Levner, Executive Director & Co-Founder

Adam is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Critical Exposure.  Prior to starting Critical Exposure, Adam worked first as a fifth grade teacher and then as a community organizer with Stand for Children where he led successful reform efforts at the local and state level that resulted in over $20 million annually in additional revenue for the severely under-funded Prince George’s County, MD school district.  Adam has also worked as an education consultant for the Center for Community Change and as a freelance photographer.

Alison Hanold, Development & Communications Director

Prior to her role at Critical Exposure, Alison worked the media for social change field, and worked with independent documentary filmmakers at the Center for Social Media.  Alison volunteers for a number of organizations throughout DC, including Women in Film and Video where she curates and moderates the Kids World Film Festival, and SilverDocs.  Alison received her Masters in Arts Management at American University, and received her B.A. in Digital Cinema at DePaul University in Chicago, IL.

Andrew Anastasi, AmeriCorps*VISTA

Andrew is a native of the D.C. area and a graduate of Macalester College, where he studied Film, Cultural Studies, and English. A former intern for Twin Cities Public Television, Andrew's passions are community organizing, cultural criticism, and visual media.

Dominique Barron, AmeriCorps*VISTA

Dominique recently received a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Georgetown University where she also minored in Japanese and Studio Art.  While at Georgetown, she tutored students in DC Public Schools' English as a Second Language program.  Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Dominique has had a long-term interest in community involvement, youth, photography and the arts.

Jeronique Bartley, AmeriCorps*VISTA

Jeronique is an award winning documentary filmmaker from Atlanta, GA.  Over the last four years, she has spent most of her time working with "at-hope" youth.  Her work includes teaching play-writing and performance to incarcerated teenage girls, and managing a volunteer reading program for struggling readers in Washington state.

Emma Scott, AmeriCorps*VISTA

Emma is a recent graduate of Bates College, where she majored in French and Studio Art. She completed her French thesis on the photographic representation of the genocide in Rwanda and secured grant money to travel to Rwanda to create her own photographic documentation of the country for her photography thesis. She spent multiple summers teaching photography at a rural summer camp and to newly arrived refugees in New York City.

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– Byron, 12th grade, Spingarn STAY Senior High School, Washington, DC