Kora Burton is an academic program coordinator supporting Morehead Honors College’s student engagement and programming initiatives, as well as the Honors first-year experience, administering the Introduction to Honors Seminar and the Honors Teaching Assistant program. She has been with UGA since 2019, previously serving Honors as a student affairs professional. Prior to joining the staff in 2022, Kora supported the Honors communications office as a graduate assistant and taught courses in UGA’s first-year writing program as an instructor of record, where she also conducted independent classroom research on best practices for teaching students to engage with dialects in literature.

Kora is originally a Kennesaw native but has called the northeast Georgia area home for over a decade. A UGA alumna (’21), she holds a master’s degree in historical linguistics and a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in history from the Honors Program at Emmanuel College (’18), where she was an NCAA student-athlete in varsity archery. Outside the office, Kora is working on a second master’s in library and information science, loves to volunteer her copy editing skills, and always makes time to play video games with her husband, also a UGA alum, and their two children.