Aurora has held leadership positions in both professional and volunteer capacities. She is a gifted communicator and has been a sought after guest speaker and lecturer. She is passionate about quality and diligence, and helping organizations be best in class. Aurora is also driven by a desire to integrate her faith into all areas of her life.

As part of her commitment to entrepreneurship, Aurora has also dedicated herself to teaching today’s and tomorrow’s business leaders. In the Fall of 2008, Aurora created and delivered an 8-session workshop series on small business management for adult immigrants in the Latino community at Erie Neighborhood House. Click here to read about SCORE's participation. Since Spring of 2009, Aurora has taught undergraduate students as an adjunct professor at the Kendall College School of Business, teaching marketing, analysis and decision making, technology and innovation, and sales management. Click here to read a press release from Kendall College about her work.

Aurora holds a Bachelor in Business Administration with honors from Georgia State University and an International MBA from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. She also has a certificate from the Perspectives World Christian Movement course.

Aurora serves on the board of two non-profit organizations. She has served since 2005 on the board of Hedge Funds Care, a fundraising organization which provides grants to agencies dedicated to the prevention and treatment of child abuse. In 2009, Aurora joined the board of the Latino Breakfast Club, an organization which seeks to bridge faith and the marketplace. Aurora also attends and serves at New Life Community Church’s Tri-Taylor campus in Chicago, IL. She and her husband, Charles, reside in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood of near west Chicago.