Alma’s friend Viradeth meets his biological father for the first time on a recent trip to Laos. Viradeth, Amber and Gabriel ate dinner with Globalist columnist Alma Khasawnih to share stories of meeting new family members abroad. (Photo courtesy of Viradeth)

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.