OUR Staff

LAURA BRAY

Chief Change Maker & Founder

Laura Bray is Chief Change Maker and founder of Angels for Change. Founded in October 2019, Angels for Change is a global volunteer supported non-profit organization dedicated to Ensuring Access to Life Saving Drugs. Their mission is to end drug shortages through advocacy, awareness, and a resilient supply chain.  

Since their founding Laura has advocated on behalf of patients on hold from treatment because of a lifesaving drug shortage and worked within the supply chain to build drug shortage awareness, proactive solutions, and resolve patient and hospital level shortages. 

  • Laura has worked as an Adjunct Business Professor at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa Florida from 2004 - 2023. Prior to Academia, Laura worked in Marketing Strategy and Small Business Consulting. She graduated from University of Florida with a BSBA and from University of South Florida with a MBA. She lives in Tampa, Florida with her husband, Mike, and their three children Shelby, Abby and Cooper.

 

Alison Verges Walters

Chief of Staff & General Counsel
Founding Board Member

Anthony “Tony” Flammia

Chief Operations Officer

Shelby Trieu

Communication & Development Manager


Volunteer Board of DIRECTORS

In 2019, Laura formed an all Women Board with diverse subject matter expertise to launch Angels for Change (A4C). Together, they evangelize the mission of A4C in their personal and professional lives. Their passion for guardianship built Angels for Change, created a national movement, and saved lives impacted by the drug shortage crisis.

MELANIE BONANNO

Director of Advocacy
Founding Board Member

DIANE MASIELLO

Director of Communications Founding Board Member

ANNE THOMAS

Founding Board Member

MELISSA GRACE

Director of Finance
Founding Board Member

FLORENCIA NORRIS

Secretary
Founding Board Member

ANNE DINAPOLI BLOCK

Founding Board Member

STEPHANIE MARTIN

Director of Legal
Founding Board Member

AUSTIN SIMON

Founding Board Member


Volunteer Advisory Board

The Advisory Board is made up of industry professionals passionate about Angel for Change’s mission and helping achieve our goals of ending life-saving drug shortages. Each diverse member possesses the highest personal and professional integrity and values, holds thoughtful leadership with strategic insight in their respective fields.

Carina Dolan


YOUTH BOARD

The Angels for Change Youth Board provides high schoolers with an empowering opportunity to cultivate and develop leadership skills and support those with an interest in building connections to increase their personal, professional, and educational networks. The Youth Board aims to increase drug shortage awareness and outreach while encouraging leadership of high schoolers through volunteerism, event organization and coordination of activities within Angels for Change.

SHELBY BRAY

Communications Officer
“I am excited to join Angel for Change’s Youth Board and hope to spread more awareness about their mission.”

LEXI HENRY

Volunteer Officer
“No one should be fighting for their health and fighting to get the best treatments. I hope by joining the youth board I am able to help.”

ROBERT MARTIN

“Life-saving medications have to reach those in need when it matters most. I want to help that happen for everyone.”

ABBY BRAY

“After my personal experiences with drug shortages, I know that this is an issue no child, adult or anyone in need should face. I joined the Angels for Change youth board so they won’t have to."

JILLIAN WALTERS

“The mission of Angles For Change is personal to me, and I am looking forward to working on its mission to end drug shortages.”