Born and raised in Novi, Michigan, Alora has always shown her creativeside proudly. Having had a fondness for entrepreneurship blossomed through a lifetime of Girl Scouts and watching her parents become successful at becoming their own bosses, she started numerous "businesses" in high school and early in college to just earn some extra pocket money. Uniquely Geek Designs was started in January 2015 in her dorm room at Alma College and debuted at AlmaCon in 2015. From the start she has done everything from shirt making, embroidery, jewelry making, etc. Her main passion quickly became designing custom letters for her Alpha Gamma Delta sorority sisters and other Greek Life "extended family," which she continues to do today as a licensed vendor.
Alora has an Associates in Liberal Arts - Theatre from Oakland Community College, a Bachelor of Arts in History & Educational Studies from Alma College, and a Masters of Science in Historic Preservation from Eastern Michigan University. Her love of History took her to SE Oklahoma for 4 years to work as the Curator of the Choctaw Nation Museum, a tribe in which she is a proud member of, but ultimately felt a pull to return to Michigan in early 2023.
She now resides in Novi, Michigan with her husband Zac and their four cats: Artemis, Wednesday, Berlioz, and Coraline, and the smallest Geekling, Lachlan Willow. After taking a couple years to help get Zac's dreams off the ground as a full time traveling Comic Con vendor, learning how to balance life with being a mother and a partner, and planning a wedding, she is back on two feet ready to dive right back into the business that has been so close to her heart for the last 11 years.
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