SPIA Alumna Champions Diversity & Inclusion
Hailing from a small town in southwest Georgia, Lora McCray (AB ’85) arrived at UGA in 1981. Education was important to her family, and Lora was a stand-out student, winning a National Merit Scholarship and being recognized with numerous other awards throughout her academic career. Most of her UGA classmates didn’t look like her, and they weren’t from her community, but Lora settled in at Creswell Hall, determined to focus on her studies and to continue to excel. Keenly interested in social justice and equity issues, Lora followed this passion, majoring in political science, with law school as her post-graduate goal.