FāVS News News and Commentary about Religion and Ethics in Eastern Washington and North Idaho
…The idea that folks from the different racial parts of the faith community are coming together and pursuing working together to resolve common issues, lends itself to an opportunity to surface and deal with the reasons we have operated separately from each other.
Rodney McAuley
Diversity in the Pews: What you can do
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.
