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BRIEF: YMCA, local universities team up for scholarship program

By: Tracy Simmons

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September 21, 2013

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In partnership with Gonzaga University and Whitworth University, the YMCA will host two events to distribute information about their Act Six initiative; a full-tuition, full needs, college scholarship program for emerging young leaders, according to a press release.

Two informational events will be held for student leaders from the Spokane community to learn more about Act Six and how to submit an application for the program during

The first event will be from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Oct. 9 at Gonzaga University’s Jepson Center.

The second will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m., Oct. 12 at Whitworth University’s Weyerhaeuser Building

Tracy Simmons

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.

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