A grandfather reflects on immigration, so-called "illegals," and human connection through a story inspired by a real encounter at a street-corner vigil.
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Reading Time: < 1minuteMeet journalism intern Madison Garner 1
Spokane Faith & Values is pleased to be working with a second intern this summer.
Madison Garner is a sophomore at Whitworth University where she is majoring in journalism and mass communication.
She also writes about religion and philosophy for the school paper, The Whitworthian.
Learn more about Garner on her author's page and keep an eye our for her upcoming news stories!
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.
