Aurora
When I entered academia, I began using the name given to me by my grandmother. “Aurora” was always my name, I just took time in claiming it.
I worked for many years as a cultural liaison, regenerative systems consultant, and facilitator for community dialogues and planning-working to unite and harness our human capacity to create as a collective.
I am research scholar at the Ronin Institute where I look at the transformational capacity and resilience of socio-ecological systems.
I obtained her Masters of Environmental Management at Western Colorado University, focusing on sustainable and resilient communities, and is a California naturalist.
I have over 15-years working with a variety of tribes and cultures from around the world. I am a generalist in that I think systems, and can understand most subjects at a depth that allows me to excel in building bridges between diverse groups and stakeholders.
I have a background in restorative justice, project management and development, conflict resolution, regenerative agriculture & systems, holistic management, climate action plans and community action based research, community planning process models, wildlife biology, and storytelling.
I have also has taught extensively in academia.
My work focuses on understanding the emergences of the psycho-social fabrics that underlies all communities around the world and how this relates to the design and construction of systems. I look at landscapes of human consciousness into the creations of the systems of the built environment and management of the natural world.
I am the creator and host the Women of Regenerative Ag series done in a joint venture with Soil4Climate.
“My applied and theoretical research focuses on community and ecosystem resiliency, adaptive capacity, and transformational capacity of socio-ecological systems. My research centers on five select cross-cultural sociological and psychological indicators that multidisciplinary research suggests are the emergent drivers behind these concepts including the proliferation of sustainable development itself. Mv applied research was done within the context of climate action planning for a higher education institution, whereby I evaluated and assessed correlations of these cross-cultural indicators to the institution's greenhouse as emission footprint and mitigation efforts. These indicators were then increased with a 5-week training program I designed for "transformational learning" where we explored across multiple fields of study concepts to do with identity self, culture, cognition, communication, transformation of the self, perception, trauma, self-directed neuroplasticity, and emotional awareness. This enabled a shift in the participant's perspective of their subjective realities, identities, implicit biases, and limiting beliefs, all of which potentially keep community from interconnecting and moving forward powerfully in a transitionary process towards sustainability.”
