Who We Are

Aurora Commons is a strategy, leadership, and liberation hub with over 30 years of experience in power building and transformation and a combined 15 years in programming and arts-based education that weaves liberation for all beings. 

We are a BIPOC, queer, and woman-owned organization. We are a constellation of folx, each with a history in movement-building with unique approaches in consulting, organizing, networks and coalitions, policy-making, philanthropy, and culture creation.

  • Susan Misra

    Susan Misra

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Susan (she/her) is a South Asian "social doula committed to helping birth a society premised on the integration and oneness of the planet, other-than-human kin, and people as a pathway to racial equity, justice, and liberation.

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  • Sydney Evans

    ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

    Sydney is a public health student committed to lifelong learning, sociology, and advancing global liberation.

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Our Network

  • Ananda Valenzula

    Ananda Valenzula

    ANANDA VALENZUELA LLC

    Ananda Valenzuela (any pronouns) is an independent consultant engaged in professional interim executive director work and organizational development facilitation, with a particular focus on equitable self-management and liberatory practices. Ananda grew up in Puerto Rico and slowly made her way across the United States, holding a variety of consultant, governance, and activist roles along the way.

  • Chandra Larsen

    Chandra Larsen

    VISUALIZING CHANGE

    Chandra Larsen (she/her) uses the power of art and creativity to ignite transformative experiences for people and organizations. For over 20 years, she has worked with people committed to tackling pervasive social issues resulting from systems of oppression and violence.

  • Latonya Slack

    Latonya Slack

    SLACK GLOBAL CONSULTING

    Latonya Slack (she/her) is the principal and founder of Slack Global Consulting, which specializes in facilitating and assisting senior-level leaders and organizations with visioning, planning, navigating critical decisions, and creating effective strategies for success.

  • Marcela Torres

    PROGRAM MANAGER

    Marcela (they/them) is an educator, organizer, and artist who considers how innate generational memories can spark contemporary tools of care, investigations of conflict, and relation to ethnobotany.