Surgeries, bullying defined Alexa Lang’s youth. Helping others will shape her future.

Surgeries, bullying defined Alexa Lang’s youth. Helping others will shape her future.

Alexa Lang had the option to remove the remaining scars from the cleft lip that she was born with and had been surgically treated throughout her childhood. If she was given that choice a few years earlier, she might have said yes. She was bullied for it throughout elementary and middle school. But now, Lang has learned how to live — perhaps thrive — with what makes her different. So she kept the scars. “I don’t want to hide it,” the John Carroll…