Oula Abdulhamid-Alrifai poses with a Syrian refugee child last year in the Turkish border town of Gaziantep, where she was documenting the lives of young refugees in Turkey. (Courtesy photo)

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.