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Schedule for today’s Good Neighbor Conference

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Nearly 300 people signed up to attend today’s Good Neighbor Conference at Gonzaga University.

The event will begin at 6 p.m. in the Jepson building and a suggested $20 donation is requested at the door.

Here is conference schedule:

Welcome: 6 p.m. with event organizers, Wolfe Auditorium

Session 16: 20 p.m. Attendees choose from the following:

  • Hate Crimes Panel Discussion: Reporting Strategies – Wolfe Auditorium
  • Social Media & Addressing Hate Online
  • LGBTQ Community & Advocacy
  • Dear World Project

Session 2: 7 p.m. Attendees choose from the following:

  • Spokane Rising Panel Discussion
  • Addressing Anti-Semitism
  • Your Muslim Neighbor & Addressing Islamophobia
  • Cultural Competency

Session 3: 8 p.m. Attendees choose from the following:

  • Gracism Panel Discussion
  • Beside the Golden Door: Immigrants in America
  • Standing Together
  • Conversations & Listening to Respond

Closing8:50 p.m., Wolfe Auditorium for closing remarks, announcement and adjournment

The Conference hashtag is #SpoNeighbor. 

 

 

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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