Aurora leads fundraising and investor relations at LongeVC, focusing on the firm’s limited partners and capital-raising strategy. She plays a key role in scaling LongeVC II, the firm’s $250M fund focused on longevity and age-related diseases. Over the course of her career, Aurora has been involved in securing and managing capital across venture capital, private equity, real estate, and wealth management.

Before joining LongeVC, Aurora served as a Vice President at Bernstein Private Wealth, where she managed investments for high-net-worth families, business owners, and nonprofit institutions. Her experience also includes roles in private equity at Torana Group and capital acquisitions at Griffin Living.

Early in her career Aurora was a professor of communications and entrepreneurship at The Catholic University of America’s Busch School of Business, where she helped hundreds of student founders start their first businesses. She also served as a strategy and policy advisor at the U.S. Department of State.

Aurora is a published author, and holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MPhil in Theology from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and an AB in Classics from Harvard College, where she graduated magna cum laude as a John Harvard Scholar.