Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons, who teaches journalism at Gonzaga University, is an award winning journalist specializing in religion reporting, digital entrepreneurship and social journalism. In her 13 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas and Connecticut. Currently she serves as the executive director of SpokaneFAVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Wash. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and for the Religion News Service.

Forum, Screening to Address Interfaith Dialogue

February 15, 2019 0

The discussion will be based on the docudrama, "The Sultan and the Saint," which tells the story of Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt who search for common ground after meeting on a bloody battlefield during the period of Christian-Muslim conflict known as the Crusades.

SpokaneFāVS Introduces “Ask A Pagan”

February 12, 2019 0

Sofia Kesler will be now be writing an "Ask A Pagan" column for the site.

Vagina Monologues Coming to Gonzaga this Week

February 11, 2019 0

YWCA Spokane is partnering with Gonzaga University’s Theatre Department this week bring a benefit production of The Vagina Monologues to Spokane.

Austin Channing Brown, a leading voice on racial justice, coming to Whitworth

February 4, 2019 0

Austin Channing Brown, a prominent new voice on racial justice and author of "I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness," will be the featured speaker at Whitworth University for African American Heritage Month on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Weyerhaeuser Hall’s Robinson Teaching Theatre.

Discuss the Future of Interfaith at the Feb. 2 Coffee Talk

February 1, 2019 1

Join FāVS for a discussion on “The Future of Interfaith” at the first Coffee Talk of 2019.

Whitworth Introduces Women’s Leadership Network

January 28, 2019 0

Last week Whitworth University announced it had created the Whitworth Women’s Leadership Network with the aim of uniting today’s leaders with those of tomorrow and empowering women to be catalysts of change and promoting professional and personal growth.