Marcie Maxwell, state representative from District 41, listened to moving stories from immigrants in her district. “Education is most important to me. We’re going to give them everything that they need,” Maxwell said. (Photo by Brooklyn Carlson)

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.