EXTRAVAGANT PEACE
ABOUT KANDRA
Kandra Charalene Albury is a servant leader, peace diplomat, author, children’s advocate, business, and life solutionist. She is also the Co-CEO and Founder of More Than Expected (MTE) Publishing, a full-service publishing agency in Gainesville, FL.
Kandra is the founder and CEO of Kids’n Capes, Inc., an organization that serves as a catalyst to community members, donors, and organizations to help prevent and raise awareness of sexual abuse, bullying and illegal drug use in children early on.
Kandra earned a bachelor’s degree in communication from the University of North Florida and a master’s degree in mass communication from the University of Florida. She has a Ph.D. in ministerial education from Truth Bible University, and she is a proud product of the Putnam County School System. She has more than 15 years of executive-level and [C-suite] communication experience. Kandra currently serves as the VP of Marketing with Meridian Behavioral Healthcare, Inc.
In September 2023, Kandra released her most anticipated literary work, “Extravagant Peace.” In 2013, she published her memoir “From Food Stamps to Favor.” Immediately after publishing her first book, she released the signature book in her children’s book series titled, “Don’t You Dare Touch Me There!” This book has been read to more than 5,000 children and adults in Florida, Georgia, Texas, Colorado and Kigali, Rwanda (Africa). Her literary and children’s advocacy work has been featured in numerous print publications as well as on local, national, and international television networks such as WCJB-TV-20, WUFT, WJXT-Channel 4, African Network Television-ANTV (host of the Kids’n Capes Show) and Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), the largest Christian television network in the world.
Kandra is married to James C. Albury, director of the Kika Silva Pla Planetarium at Santa Fe College. They are honored to be the parents of three amazing children and an awesome grandson.
She is a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Gainesville’s Delta Sigma Zeta Chapter.
