Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners and SNAP Financial Access have named Chief Operating Officer Amber Johnson as the organizations’ next CEO.

A Spokane entrepreneur is leveraging 62 years of experience in the industrial pump industry by offering educational seminars to maintenance workers and engineers here and across the Inland Northwest.

When Becky Rempe arrived at the Barton English School at First Presbyterian Church of Spokane, the decades-old program consisted largely of one-on-one tutoring sessions. Today, the school is abuzz with conversations in multiple languages as immigrants, refugees, volunteers, and residents gather to learn and engage with each other and the community.