Harry Albright
Harry James Albright (31 October 1961) is the Director of Communications for the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC)[1]. He was Editor of The Friend Magazine from 1997 to 2004.[2]
Harry was born in Geneva, Switzerland, the son of Leland S. Albright Jr., a Canadian diplomat, and Mary G. Carter. He attended the International School of Geneva, Lakefield College School, and Pickering College in Newmarket, Ontario. He studied journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa.
As a journalist at the Elmira, Ontario Independent, he shared in Canada's most prestigious journalism prize, the Michener Award, in 1990.[3] The Independent was part of the North Waterloo Publishing group, and Harry worked on various other group titles. He was Production Manager for the Elora Sentinel and Fergus Thistle, and News Editor of the agricultural newspaper, The Farmgate.
With his background in agricultural journalism, Harry moved to the UK in 1993 and became the Press Officer for the National Farmers Union in the East Midlands region.[4]
Harry married Beth Peakall in 1981, and they have two children, Cat (born 1982), a film maker living in Wales, and Ben (born 1984), a travel writer living in England. He is the son-in-law of the late David Peakall.