Muthanna Al-Nidawi, who recently emigrated from Iraq and is now a security guard at Chihuly Garden and Glass at Seattle Center. (Photo by Alan Berner/The Seattle Times)

Alex is a cofounder and editor of The Seattle Globalist. He's a visual journalist whose work has been published by PBS, The Seattle Times, FRONTLINE/World and the Seattle Weekly.  Alex teaches journalism in the University of Washington's Department of Communication and recently directed the documentary film Barzan.