Aurea joins PSR-LA as the Climate Justice Associate to coordinate the LEAP-LA coalition and support other climate-related coalition efforts.

She is passionate about addressing the intersection of climate change and public health by focusing on the social determinants of health to ensure happy, healthy communities.

Her family is rooted in the San Fernando Valley, also known as unceded Tongva, Tataviam, and Gabrieleño land. Her interest in climate change is deeply influenced by her professional and personal time in the American Southwest and in Zambia as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She received her master's degree at the University of Arizona, where she supported emergency heat response with the Pima County Health Department (PCHD) and the Southwest Center on Resilience for Climate Change and Health (SCORCH). She also supported the WEST-EJ Center, an Environmental Justice technical assistance organization providing communications and engagement strategies to disenfranchised communities in the Pacific West. Her most precious experiences in Tucson were a semester-long immersive border health service-learning project and working on trails at Saguaro National Park.

She loves to play in nature by camping, hiking in the desert and mountains, and swimming in natural bodies of water. She also loves to read; some of her favorite books are This Bridge Called My Back, The Grapes of Wrath, Beloved, and Mountains Beyond Mountains.