Youth rehearse during an evening hip hop class at the school, a building that provides shelter for much of the violence and crime surrounding the neighborhood. (Photo by Christan Leonard)

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.