 in English, and from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a C.A.G.S.. She was a teacher in Colorado and Massachusetts.She has also was a journalist with the "San Antonio Express-News" and "St. Louis Post-Dispatch", during which time she served as vice-president of the Newspaper Guild's Local 49.Bray was first elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1992, and served in that body through 2002, when she was elected to the Missouri State Senate.