Levner is co-founder of Critical Exposure, a nonprofit focused on teaching D.C. students photography techniques. It then helps them apply their newly acquired skills to exposing the differences between the city’s best and worst schools with the goal of pushing public officials to act. How did you decide to start Critical Exposure?

I was working in low-income schools and saw tremendous discrepancies between those schools and wealthier schools. It’s difficult to convey those differences to the public and the officials who are in the position to make things better. I’m a photographer, so it was natural to use photography to highlight what’s going on in our schools. We started in 2004 in Baltimore and shifted to D.C. in 2006.

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