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Join Spokane FāVS for a Coffee Talk on Refugees in Spokane, Saturday, Aug. 3 at the FāVS Center, 5115 S. Freya.
Coffee Talks are regular forums that FāVS have hosted since December, 2012. Topics are determined by issues in the news.
Panelists at the upcoming discussion will include:
- Jackson Lino, refugee from Sudan
- Ben Shedlock, FāVS columnist who rode his bike across the state to raise money for refugees
- Bushra Alshalah, refugee from Iraq
- Arcelia Martin, up-and-coming journalist who has been writing about refugees for SpokaneFāVS
This panel will be moderated by Megan Carroll from KREM-TV.
Free coffee is provided thanks to our friends at Revel 77.
Coffee Talk will be Aug. 3 from 10 – 11:30 a.m. Extra parking is available on 51st Avenue and in the parking lot of Park Heights Baptist Church.
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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.
