Speaker

Laura Bray

Chief Change Maker,
Angels for Change

Laura is an Adjunct Business Professor at Hillsborough Community College. Prior to Academia, Laura worked in Marketing Strategy and Small Business Management and Consulting. She graduated from University of Florida with a BSBA and from University of South Florida with a MBA. She lives in Valrico, Florida with her husband, Mike, and their three children Shelby, Abby and Cooper.

November 24, 2018, her daughter, Abby was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Before that day, Laura knew very little about leukemia or childhood cancer. In April of 2019, while in treatment, Abby was in need of a life-saving drug that was part of a prolonged global shortage. This is when Laura realized that just because there is proven medical technology to save a person’s life it does not mean a patient will receive it.

It is unacceptable to Laura that any family or patient, in a fight for survival, be told that they don’t have access to the life-saving drugs needed to fight their disease.