Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award winning journalist specializing in religion reporting, digital entrepreneurship and social journalism. In her 15 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 is also a Scholarly Assistant Professor at Washington State University.

Meet our summer journalism intern

June 1, 2016 News 0

SpokaneFāVS is pleased to add to Peter Houston-Hencken to its team of journalists this summer.

VIEWPOINTS: Has Memorial Day Lost its Meaning?

May 30, 2016 Commentary, Features 1

Viewpoints is a SpokaneFāVS feature where our writers respond to a weekly question. Readers are invited to participate by posting in the comment section below. Originally known as Decoration Day, which was a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the Union war dead with flowers, Memorial Day has come …