WINNIPEG, MB – The University of Winnipeg Alumni Association will honour Ida Albo (BA Hons.’81 (Economics – UWinnipeg), MA ’82 (Economics – Queen’s)) with the Distinguished Alumni Award at the University’s Fall Convocation Ceremony for the Conferring of Degrees on Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. at UWinnipeg’s Duckworth Centre.
A hotelier, entrepreneur, yoga practitioner, economist, restaurateur, philanthropist and volunteer,
she has demonstrated incredible leadership, caring and commitment to Winnipeg and its citizens, especially in the areas of economic, social and cultural development, education, and health.
Albo is co-owner of Canada’s largest yoga facility, Yoga Public, and The Fort Garry Hotel, Spa and Conference Centre. She has also worked as an economist for the Government of Canada and as an economics lecturer at The University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba.
Albo served The University of Winnipeg as a member of its Alumni Association Council, as a University of Winnipeg Regent, and as a University of Winnipeg Foundation board member. She has also served numerous other community and charitable organizations; among them CentreVenture Development Corporation, as Chair; and as a board member for the Tourism Association of Winnipeg; Canadian Tourism Commission; Health Sciences Centre Research Foundation; Citizens Against Impaired Driving and the Pan Am Clinic Foundation. Albo is also Chair of the Guardian Angel Benefit Committee for the CancerCare Manitoba Foundation.
Ida Albo was nominated for the Distinguished Alumni Award in spring 2012 and was selected by a vote of the Alumni Council, the representative body of the Alumni Association that is comprised of more than 42,000 graduates of The University of Winnipeg.
Alumni Association President Stefan Jonasson (Collegiate ’79, BA ’88, MDiv ’97) said, “Ida Albo’s life defies conventional categories. As both a public servant and an entrepreneur, who has invested her time and talent in a wide array of community activities, she exemplifies good citizenship and she has used her considerable gifts to help build a more humane and healthy community. We are proud to count her among the alumni of The University of Winnipeg.”
To read the full Distinguished Alumni Award Citation for Ida Albo, or to nominate someone for the award, please visit UWinnipeg and click on alumni.
For media inquiries: please contact UWinnipeg Alumni Association President Stefan Jonasson at (204) 781-0320.
