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The Spokane New Economy Summit will be held April 5 and 6 at Gonzaga and Riverpoint Campus.
The summit will be an opportunity to discuss shaping strategies to create a vibrant and sustainable Inland Northwest, according to a news release.
Ted Howard from the Democracy Collaborative will be the keynote speaker. He'll deliver a lecture on April 5. Events April 5 will be at the Gonzaga University Jepson Center, in the Wolff Auditorium from 6 to 9 p.m.
On April 6 there will be 12 new economy workshops for guests to choose from, as well as a new economy pitch contest. These will be held at the EWU Phase 1 Building on the Riverpoint campus beginning at 9:30 a.m.
On the evening of April 6 the documentary, “Shift Change” will be shown.
Tickets are $5 for students and $25 for community members and can be purchased online.
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 SpokaneFāVS.com, 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.
