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Charles Vaden
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Please welcome Charles Vaden to the SpokaneFAVS team of writers.
Vaden served in the Marine Corp for six years before earning a degree in sociology. He spent 15 years working as a counselor.
For SpokaneFAVS he plans to write about how structural sociology can be applied to the “Kingdom of God on Earth,” he said.
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.
Welcome Charles! I look forward to reading your articles.