ALBANY — Andrea Walsh and Andy Davis’ marriage has been a love affair of shared passions and commitments. The co-directors of World Fellowship Center, an intergenerational social justice camp and conference center in Albany, don’t have much of a separation between their personal, work and political lives.
When Andy and Andrea took over the center in 2000, they already had spent years as political activists.
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