Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies and director of the ACCESS Project, gave a lecture in conjunction with the photo exhibit "The Missing Story of Ourselves" at the University of Washington, Seattle, on Jan. 19.  The  exhibit is on display at Odegaard Undergraduate Library through Jan. 30. It includes museum quality framed color photographs and narratives created by women and men who either are, or were, poor parents and students changing their lives through the pathway of higher education in the United States.

The exhibit is designed to share honest and compelling stories that are often absent from the contemporary debate about poverty and the poor in America. The images and first-person narratives are reflections of low-income, non-traditional students and parents. The exhibit was developed by The ACCESS Project at Hamilton College. It challenges misrepresentations of the poor, and raises questions about outcomes of welfare reform that denies opportunities for advancement through education.