Lois started at MPW as a photographer in 1987 at Caruthersville. Two years later she came back as a faculty member and has since only missed five or six workshops.

Lois is an assistant professor at West Virginia University and spent four years as chief photographer for the Associated Press Bureau in Hanoi, Vietnam.

She values the workshop because photographers get to work on self-generated assignments. The stories that have stood out to her the most are the ones where the "photographers changed the most."