# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valerie-aurora
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:38:00.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valerie-aurora"
name: "Valerie Aurora"
slug: "valerie-aurora"
description: "Valerie Anita Aurora is an American software engineer and feminist activist. She was the co-founder of the Ada Initiative, a non-profit organization that sought to increase women's participation in the free-culture movement, open-source technology, and open source culture. Aurora is also known within the Linux community for advocating new developments in filesystems in Linux, including ChunkFS and the Union file system. Her birth name was Val Henson, but she changed it shortly before 2009, choosing her middle name after the computer scientist Anita Borg. In 2012, Aurora, and Ada Initiative co-founder Mary Gardiner were named two of the most influential people in computer security by SC Magazine. In 2013, she won the O'Reilly Open Source Award."
tagline: "American computer scientist and activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Valerie_Aurora_headshot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.41
  momentum:             5.700325732899024
  historical:           13.817352
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/vaurorapub"
    handle:    "vaurorapub"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://valerieaurora.org"
sources:
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    title: "వాలెరీ ఆరొరా"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Valeriya Aurora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فاليري أرورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فاليرى ارورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Valerie Aurora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Aurora"
    title: "Valerie Aurora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Anita_Aurora"
    title: "Valerie Anita Aurora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Aurora"
    title: "Valerie Aurora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Aurora"
    title: "Valerie Aurora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "والری اورورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Aurora"
    title: "Valerie Aurora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Valerie Aurora"
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    title: "Valerie Aurora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ヴァレリー・オーロラ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Valerie Aurora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Aurora"
    title: "Valerie Aurora"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Aurora"
    title: "Valerie Aurora"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump