Alexander Jones stands with Hannah Perls and other Bald Solidarity participants after shaving their heads in Westlake Center. Jones’ scar comes from a successfully removal of a brain tumor that threatened his life two years ago.

Sara McCaslin is an editor and visual journalist for The Seattle Globalist. She worked for several daily midwest newspapers including The Flint Journal, The Columbia Missourian and The Boone County Journal before moving to Seattle. Sara trains the next generation of journalists through the Globalist Apprenticeship Program and is a graduate of the Journalism School at the University of Missouri.