Aurora Griffin

Aurora Griffin attended Harvard University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Classics in 2014. There she served as president of the Catholic Student Association. She was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University, where she received a graduate degree in theology. Her primary academic research has focused on Thomas Aquinas and Catholic Social Teaching, with dissertations on the role of female leadership in the Catholic Church and the ethics of private property ownership.

She then published How I Stayed Catholic at Harvard: Forty Tips for Faithful College Students (Ignatius Press, 2016). She served as a policy advisor at the US Department of State. She was appointed a Scholar-Practitioner Fellow in 2019. In 2020, she earned her Masters in Business Administration from The Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, with a certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation. She now teaches Business Communications at The Busch School.

Education

• A.B. Classics, Harvard College
• M.Phil Theology, Oxford University
• M.B.A., Stanford Graduate School of Business