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There are lots of new faces around here!

First, meet our new writers — Patricia Bruininks and Lucas Thayer.

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Bruininks

Bruininks teaches courses such on Psychology of Poverty & Social Class and Love, Altruism, & Forgiveness at Whitworth University and regularly studies and conducts research on the emotion of hope.

 

 

 

Thayer
Thayer

Thayer recently graduated from Whitworth with a degree in journalism and mass communication. He considers himself agnostic, although he says he raised in a Christian household.

 

 

 

 

Next meet our newest interns.

Powers
Powers

Paige Powers is about to be a junior at Gonzaga University, where she is a business major. She’s the vice president of Gonzaga’s Health and Wellness club on campus. She was born in Brazil, and grew up in Spokane. She attends St. John’s Cathedral.

 

 

 

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Allen

Vincent Allen is a broadcasting major at Gonzaga and a public relations minor. The past few years he’s worked in various roles at SWX Spokane, running everything from camera to audio at local sporting events, he said. After graduation he hopes to move back to his home state of California and to be a host or producer in the entertainment industry.

 

Tracy Simmons
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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