Laura Bray MBA

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 since 2004. Prior to academia, Laura worked in Marketing Strategy and Small Business Management and Consulting. She graduated from the University of Florida with a BSBA and from the University of South Florida with an MBA. She lives in Tampa, Florida with her husband, Mike, and their three children Shelby, Abby and Cooper.

In 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.