The Welcome Home Project Opening Night

Please come to the exhibit of the The Welcome Home Project Opening night.
The panel will feature moving stories by several of the participants in the Welcome Home Project. The photographer, Ruth Morgan, will be present and refreshments will be served.

I know it is a schlepp to Hayward, but the BART stops a block from the city hall gallery. I promise that you will be moved in many ways by hearing these powerful and compelling speakers talk about their many years of experience in the criminal justice system and how they turned their lives around. They all will share deeply personal stories of redemption, restitution, and restoration – true healing.

The exhibit is a powerful and compelling collection of photographs and stories of formerly incarcerated Alameda County residents that have turned their lives around after many years of involvement with the criminal justice system.  Ruth Morgan, is a nationally acclaimed photographer and Executive Director of Community Works West whose work was recently in the The Sentence Unseen show on Alcatraz. The Welcome Home Project humanizes the formerly incarcerated while adding a deeper understanding of the challenges of reentry. These stories are testimony to the power of resilience and determination in the face of the barriers that most formerly incarcerated individuals face.

Micky Duxbury