FāVS News News and Commentary about Religion and Ethics in Eastern Washington and North Idaho
Jocelyn Paluch is the volunteer committee chairperson for the American Cancer Society’s “Bark for Life” event.
She’s also a founding member of Eastern Washington’s Compassionate Interfaith Society and is an active SpokAnimal volunteer.
Paluch has been married a really looooooooong time, she says. Together they have three furry children, two sons, two daughters-in-law, three grandsons, and five furry grand-doggies.
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.
