Don Albrecht
Director, Western Rural Development Center
Dr. Don Albrecht is the Director of the Western Rural Development Center at Utah State University. He received a B.S in Forestry, an M.S. in Sociology from Utah State University and a Ph.D. in Rural Sociology from Iowa State University. He then served as a member of the faculty at Texas A&M University for 27 years. He has researched and written extensively on the issues confronting the communities and residents of rural America. Among the issues explored are natural resource concerns, economic restructuring, demographic trends, poverty, inequality, and education. His most recent book publications include Our Energy Future: Socioeconomic Implications and Policy Options for Rural America (2014), Rethinking Rural: Global Community and Economic Development in the Small Town West (2014), Rural Housing and Economic Development (2018); Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United States (2019) and Building a Resilient Twenty-First Century Economy for Rural America (2020).