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Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 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, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

Pandemic’s effects on religious life, liberty named No. 1 religion story of 2020

Though the year was fraught with civil unrest, scandals and politics, COVID-19 remained as pervasive in the 2020 Religion News Association Top 10 Religion Stories and Newsmaker of the Year Poll as it was in daily public life.

Spokane Clergy Plan to Commit to Year of Anti-Racist Work

White faith leaders in Spokane will gather on Sept. 25, four months after the death of George Floyd, to make a public act of repentance for the sin of racism, according to an announcement.

FāVS Online Social Coming up Sept. 10

Mark your calendars for Sept. 10 for the next FāVS online social. Since the pandemic, we've moved our events online, but still want to find...

FāVS Forward: Helping Women & Children

In this episode of FāVS Forward we talk with Edie Rice-Sauer, the executive director of Transitions, a non-profit that seeks to end homelessness and poverty for women and children in Spokane.

FāVS Forward: Sr. Mary Eucharista, “Hope, Peace & Healing”

In this episode of FāVS Forward we talk with Sr. Mary Eucharista, named after the Holy Eucharist.

FāVS Forward: Rev. Jim Murphy “Come and See”

In this episode of FāVS Forward we talk with Rev. Jim Murphy of St. Clare ECC.

Video – Coffee Talk: The Power of Words

Video: "The Power of Words" was the topic at the SpokaneFāVS Coffee Talk, which took place online on Aug. 1.

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