Carolina Silva Portero
Training Staff Attorney
617-357-0700 ext. 338
Carolina Silva-Portero is a Training Staff Attorney with the Legal Aid & Community Education (LACE) Project at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute. A lawyer and educator, she has built a legal career spanning Latin America, the United States, and beyond, advancing justice through law and education with communities, institutions, and global organizations. At Harvard University’s Afro-Latin American Research Institute, she led an executive education program for hundreds of adult learners each year, including community advocates and non-traditional students from across the Americas.
Carolina has represented victims of human rights violations before the Inter-American Human Rights System, designed legal training programs across Latin America, and served as a consultant for the United Nations on prison reform and access to justice. Her experience also includes research consulting for global policy initiatives at JustSystems, legislative and policy analysis for the Ecuadorian National Congress, and legal research for the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights in Ecuador. She earned her S.J.D. from Harvard Law School and her J.D. from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador.