Meet the advisory board
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Meet the advisory board *
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ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEELexi Brown is an arts administrator with over a decade of experience caring for, curating, and thinking about photographs. For eight years, she served at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, working with artists, curating and planning exhibitions, and managing projects. Currently located in New York, Lexi is now a Research Associate in the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lexi holds a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MA in Museum Studies from San Francisco State University.
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ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEEJennifer Jordan has been involved with First Exposures in a volunteer capacity since 2009, managing teams of volunteers at special events and acting as a fundraising consultant. Currently serving as Director of Membership at LACMA, she has more than 15 years of experience as a development professional working with California nonprofits and arts organizations, including San Francisco Opera, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco Ballet, and SF Camerawork.
Jennifer received her BA from San Francisco State University and continued her graduate studies at California College of the Arts.
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ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEEart Partnerships Consultant and Writer Ann Kappes is an innovative arts leader with results-driven partner-building expertise. She thrives on identifying quality connections between individual artists, collectives and organizations to generate sustainable relationships, enliven urban environments, and encourage diverse audiences to contribute to shared, socially-conscious plans and visions.
Based in San Francisco, Ann directs multi-disciplinary teams ranging from art exhibitions to complex installations and collaborative licensing projects. In 2024, she authored Art is Art, published by Chronicle Books, a curated collection of artworks and stories inviting readers to examine and challenge their perceptions about disability.
Ann holds a Master of Arts degree in Museum Studies with emphasis in programming and curatorial studies complemented by a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with a photography focus and art and anthropology minors.
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ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEEDelaney is a Southern California transplant who has called the Bay Area home for the past 16 years. She holds a BA from the University of San Francisco, with a major in Art History/Arts Management and minor in Media Studies. Following internships at the de Young Museum and The Exploratorium, she began her gallery career at Fraenkel, where she worked for 8 years.
It was through her work at Fraenkel that she became acquainted with First Exposures and their mission. She is currently the Senior Director, Operations at Jessica Silverman, where she's been since 2022.
After serving on the Looking Forward Giving Back Host Committee for 2 years, she joined the Advisory Board, which is a wonderful way for her to stay connected and involved in the local photo community.
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ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEEE.B. Davis III is an award-winning Group Creative Director at AKQA in San Francisco with over 12 years of advertising experience pushing innovative thinking across social, digital, and traditional media, with an emphasis on nontraditional ideas. He’s brought those ideas to life with clients encompassing gaming, fashion, soft drinks, start-ups, and social good.
In 2020, E.B. was also invited to be on the founding board for AKQA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council that encompassed our North America studios. His interest in social good extends back to his first advertising job in Washington, DC at GMMB – an agency specializing in social good and corporate social responsibility.
For the past few years, E.B. has assisted First Exposures in rebranding their organization as well as continual support across various graphics and a 2020 fundraising video that was filmed entirely by the First Exposures mentees. He is also on the Comms team for the SF branch of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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FINANCE & ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEEEmmy Hansen was born and raised in San Francisco and has more than 20 years of professional experience in finance and accounting. She currently runs her own consulting business providing financial services for clients on near and long-term strategic business plans. She graduated from UCLA with a BA in business economics and a minor in accounting.
She started her career working at Deloitte’s Audit and Assurance Services and went on to receive her CPA. She later worked for Lucasfilm’s Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis team managing the company’s financial consolidations, annual budgets, and long range plans. She was on the acquisition and integration team involved in the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney. During her free time she enjoys volunteering with her family at local organizations and is active in her children’s school community.
Emmy is dedicated to First Exposures’ mission to empower youth through mentoring and photography, and is committed to helping advance the organization’s financial goals.
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FINANCE & ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEELorenzo Mah served as a First Exposures mentor when he first moved to San Francisco from the east coast. He continued to support First Exposures for over a decade, including securing bus shelter space for FX’s collaboration with 826 Valencia, The City Unfolded. Lorenzo hopes to see the First Exposures community continue to grow and thrive, and one of his favorite things is running into former students and mentors around the Bay Area.
Outside of FX, Lorenzo has worked across companies in the advertising, data, and photography tech space, and is currently a Managing Director at LiveRamp. He holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson and a BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia.
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ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEEMiriam brings wide-ranging experience to her role as board advisor. She received her MNA in Nonprofit Administration from the University of San Francisco and her BA in Broadcast Communications Arts from San Francisco State University.
Her various roles as Executive Assistant to Directors and as Liaison to the Board gives her a high-level, overarching view of organization’s board governance, finances, strategic plan, and fundraising stratagems. She continues to use her excellent communication skills in areas of cultural and educational equity, internal communications, and cultivation initiatives.
Miriam views herself as an ambassador and advocate of the institutions she has served. She is a native San Franciscan and is fluent in Spanish. She enjoys going to see live music, theatre, opera and the ballet. An avid scooterist and motorcycle enthusiast, Miriam enjoys time with her family and friends and is an ardent karaoke fiend.
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ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEERon Moultrie Saunders is a San Francisco-based photographic artist, landscape architect, and teacher. His artwork is in the San Francisco Arts Commission Civic Art Collection for works he completed for the San Francisco Linda Brooks-Burton Bayview Library Branch, Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco General Hospital, and Public Utilities Commission Headquarters in San Francisco.
He was commissioned to create works for VM Ware, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA and Dallas, TX and for The San Francisco Travel Association. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States including solo shows for his ongoing series “The Secret Life of Plants'' at San Francisco International Airport and CordenPotts Gallery in San Francisco, CA and group shows Hiraeth at Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco, Self:Scape at Middlesex County College, NJ, and Exposed: Today’s Photography/Yesterday’s Technology at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.
His work is published in several books including the 2016 INPHA 3 (International Photography Annual) Self Exposure: The Male Nude Self-Portrait and From Art to Landscape. He is a co-founding member of Three Point Nine Art Collective, a collective of black artists in San Francisco. Finally, he is the recipient of two Individual Artists Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Saunders received his MLA and BA from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA and his MSW from the University of California, Berkeley.
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GOVERNANCE COMMITTEEStephen Galloway is a San Francisco-based professional artist who specializes in fine art photography and public art. His works, which encompass photography and installation art, have been displayed in various exhibitions, including solo shows at the Sonoma County Museum, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the San Jose Museum of Art. Galloway's public artworks can be found in buildings throughout the Bay Area and across the United States, including locations in Texas and Delaware.
He is a dedicated advocate for public education and served as a professor emeritus at Sonoma State University. In addition to his academic pursuits, he has served on the board of a local independent school for seven years and volunteered in SFUSD schools through the SF Education Fund.
Galloway earned both of his art degrees from San Francisco State University and is set to begin his term on the Advisory Board in 2023.
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GOVERNANCE COMMITTEEDr. Sarah Kremer believes passionately in supportive relationships, integrated services and art for everyone at any age to heal and grow. Currently, she is allcove implementation manager at Stanford University’s Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing, helping grow the allcove network of integrated youth mental health centers in California.
Experienced in mental health and youth mentoring, she provides direct services, supervision, teaching, technical assistance and training. Her work includes addressing trauma, mental health, resilience and creativity with adolescents in psychiatric care, community mental health centers, alternative school settings, dance camps, juvenile probation and mentoring agencies through youth development, photography and therapeutic healing approaches.
Sarah is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) and Board-Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC). She received a master’s in art therapy from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and bachelor’s in visual arts from the University of California San Diego. Sarah taught graduate student research for 12 years in Notre Dame de Namur University’s Art Therapy Psychology department, where she received her PhD in Art Therapy. She is also a trained SoulCollage® facilitator.