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Judith Shadford
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Spokane Faith & Values is pleased to welcome Judith Shadford to its team of writers.
Shadford turned from her career in marketing to focus on creative writing. For SpokaneFAVS she plans to use those skills to transpose biblical stories into modern-day situations.
She currently edits the newsletter for St. John’s Cathedral and sings in the Cathedral choir.
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.