The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education
October 25, 2006

Sandra (Lockner) Dahlberg ’91, a professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown and author of Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Education in America (Temple University Press, 2003), brings the acclaimed exhibit The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education to the Pacific Northwest for the first time. This moving photo exhibit, on display at colleges around the country, is the culmination of her research into poverty.

The exhibit will be on display at Collins Memorial Library at the University of Puget Sound from Oct. 24 to Nov. 9. A Puget Sound alumna, Dahlberg will give a public lecture in support of the exhibit on Thursday, Nov. 2, at 4 p.m. in Collins Memorial Library, McCormick Room. Both the lecture and exhibit are free and open to the public.

Using her own experiences and those of the photo subjects, Dahlberg will take the audience on a journey into the lives of America’s poor, through first-person accounts of Americans struggling to pursue their dreams of higher education. A compelling exhibit of 50 framed, museum-quality, color photographs coupled with narratives created by students who are or were poor, the installation presents a unique view of poverty from insiders’ perspectives and reframes the cultural devaluations of poor parents, families, work, and higher education in the United States today.

Together, their stories present a complex and finely nuanced portrait of what it means to be poor in the United States, and of the positive and transformative power of higher education in our lives and for our families, our communities, and the nation.

For directions to campus, Collins Memorial Library hours of operation, visit the Web site.

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