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Zach Oxford
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Please welcome Zach Oxford to the SpokaneFAVS team of writers.
Oxford is a senior at Gonzaga University majoring in both psychology and sociology. His research in both fields focuses on prejudice and discrimination, which he plans to write about for FAVS.
At GU he currently serves as president of the Gonzaga Gay-Straight Alliance and has an interest in working with organizations that are focused on improving sex education and eliminating the stigma surrounding mental health, he said.
When he’s not studying or working on these issues, he said he can be founding at a local Starbucks either serving coffee or compulsively drinking it.
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 FāVS.News, 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 Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
