About Aura Highsmith
Aura understands what it takes to provide attentive support to clients so they feel well informed and cared for at all stages. She has the insight and skills to help successfully match their lifestyle and needs with the right home and community. Aura is blessed with the ability to notice the smallest details, offers consistent commination, and keeps transactions in check for all parties. ?I assure to do all I can to meet your every need.?
Thanks to her service-oriented background that includes education, management, project coordination and grant writing, Aura excels at doing what is necessary without excuse! She knows the importance of clear, concise service and knowledge-based guidance, which help achieve her renters?, buyers? and sellers? goals.
Aura entered NYC residential real estate in 2013. She loves her work, and is very familiar with Williamsburg, Brooklyn as well as most areas of Manhattan, particularly the East Village and Upper West Side. Wherever your interests take her, she is there to assist.
Originally from Jersey City, NJ, Aura graduated with a BFA degree from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, NJ with a Painting Concentration. She also took graduate courses at George Mason University, Seattle Pacific University, and illustration courses at FIT in New York.
After teaching Visual Arts for 15 years, instructing and managing the progress of thousands of students, Aura wrote and received many grants for teaching global education and producing murals and curricula infused with the purpose of art injected in all subject matters. She is a China Fulbright-Hays and Japan Memorial Fulbright Scholar, and an adventurous traveler. Her own explorations to 30+ countries and over 100 cities and towns made her a firm believer that travel is the best teacher of all.
In addition to her work in real estate, Aura leads art workshops for children and families at NJPAC and various foundation in New York and Newark. To balance work and play, you can find her regularly painting or shooting photography in the city, at yoga, dancing and kickboxing class, kayaking on the Hudson, enjoying museums and concerts, or building her stamp collection.