SpokaneFāVS
Please welcome the Rev. Joe Niemiec Jr. to the SpokaneFAVS team!
Rev. Niemiec is co-pastor of The Spokane Center for Spiritual Living and president of the Spokane Interfaith Council.
He began his spiritual journey in the 1980s after stepping out of a Texas jail and realizing his life was in shambles. Through meditation, recovery programs and eventually Science of the Mind spirituality, Niemiec found his path.
Read more about our newest blogger on his author's page.
Welcome to the team, Rev. Joe!
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.
