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Image of Boston City Councilor and BU alum, Annissa Essaibi-George, who has started sew face masks for the Boston University Police Department at the Stitch House, a shop in Dorchester which she founded. Two BU PD officers stand at her left and right; the wall behind them is filled with skeins of yarn.
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Inside BU Alum’s Stitch House, a Business for the Times

April 16, 2020
Two First Year Outreach Project (FYSOP) make paper lanterns during FYSOP week at Spontaneous Celebrations in Jamaica Plain for their paper lantern festival.
Community Service

Students Gave, Too—Their Way

October 23, 2019
Clarinda Blais teaches philosophy at the Women's Lunch Place homeless shelter via the Free Philosophy Project program
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Teaching Philosophy to the Homeless

July 10, 2017

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