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Sophie Godley (right) introduces Jessica Rinaldi (left) and Sarah Schweitzer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boston Globe<\/em> reporter Sarah Schweitzer and photographer Jessica Rinaldi visited the class Seeing Poverty: Understanding and Addressing Poverty in America on December 1.<\/p>\n

To Sophie Godley<\/a>, clinical assistant professor and director of undergraduate programs in Community Health Sciences, it was as if they had been there all along.<\/p>\n

When she read their recent long-form piece, \u201cThe Life and Times of Strider Wolf<\/a>,\u201d Godley says, \u201cit felt like they had been sitting in our class for the last two months.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Globe<\/em> piece shows a few months in the life of Strider Wolf Grant, a little boy living in extreme poverty in Maine with his grandparents and younger brother, and the effects of the abuse, scarcity, and uncertainty he has faced.<\/p>\n

Godley immediately reached out to Schweitzer and Rinaldi, and soon they agreed to come speak to Godley\u2019s students.<\/p>\n

Seeing Poverty, taught by Godley at BU\u2019s Kilachand Honors College, explores issues in American poverty through multiple disciplines and approaches.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe combination of photojournalism and narrative was exciting,\u201d Godley explains, \u201cbecause our class has spent a lot of time thinking about imagery in terms of poverty and how the poor are depicted.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a brief introduction\u2014in which Schweitzer and Rinaldi joked about public speaking being a departure from their usual fly-on-the-wall approach\u2014the reporters answered student questions about telling stories about poverty from a place of privilege.<\/p>\n

One student asked about being \u201clet in\u201d to the family\u2019s life to create such an intimate portrayal of incredible hardship.<\/p>\n

By way of an answer, Rinaldi described her first meeting with the family: She arrived almost immediately after the Grants were informed of their eviction.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, ‘I understand if you don\u2019t want me to shoot anything,\u2019” Rinaldi recalled. Strider\u2019s grandmother replied, “\u2018You shoot anything you need to.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Rinaldi said that was the moment of permission: \u201cIt\u2019s okay for you to be here. It\u2019s okay for you to see this. It\u2019s okay for you to tell this story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Michelle Samuels<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writer and photographer of Boston Globe<\/i> article visited Sophie Godley\u2019s Seeing Poverty class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10989,"featured_media":76606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[2258],"bu-publication":[3516],"sphnews-article-category":[3519,3525,3528,3541],"sphnews-topic":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"profile_tax":[311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/76603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10989"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76603"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/76603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174358,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/76603\/revisions\/174358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76603"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=76603"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-article-category?post=76603"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-topic?post=76603"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=76603"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=76603"},{"taxonomy":"profile_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_tax?post=76603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}