Our Team

Setting the table was a passion Harrison first discovered at a young age, when his unbridled excitement for unloading the family china cabinet on Thanksgiving Day warmed the entire household.  A California native, Harrison and his family moved to Aquidneck Island nearly a quarter century ago. A career in restaurants was first realized in Newport and developed in Manhattan, The Bay Area, and New Orleans. Harrison returned home in 2021 and was inspired by the passion of the Castle Hill team. When he’s not at the Inn orchestrating Aurelia’s service, you will find Harrison golfing or sailing with his family.

Leita was born with a green thumb and grew up on her father’s Rose Hill Farm in Wakefield, RI. An environmental science graduate and herbalist, she has grown and nurtured Castle Hill’s culinary gardens since the spring of 2017. The Inn now boasts both a kitchen garden, from which much of Aurelia’s produce is cultivated, and a healing garden, with its many herbs and edible flowering plants that find their way onto Aurelia’s menu. With a bounty grown each year from seed in the Inn’s greenhouse, Leita aims to provide Aurelia’s culinary team with delicious, sustainable, hyper-local ingredients. When she’s not in our gardens, you can find Leita chasing and riding a Narragansett Bay surf break, or chasing after her daughter.