Carolina Sevilla is a Costa Rican, lawyer, specialist in Human Rights and a career diplomat who worked in the United Nations for three years during the term that Costa Rica was on the Security Council and who served as Consul of Costa Rica in New York City. In parallel, she founded her own global movement: 5 Minute Beach Cleanup; an educational and interactive campaign on social networks with a simple message: invite everyone to clean the beach for five minutes and thus collaborate with the problem of plastic and garbage in our oceans. The initiative has been highly successful as it is a 100% collaborative and interactive project since it is powered by the same people or heroes. The movement has inspired people to perform more than 28,000 individual cleanups accounted through their hashtag. As a grassroots initiative, it also became known globally thanks to several videos that went viral and have been viewed by more than 20 million people.They have been featured on BBC News, on CGTN, she has collaborated with The Economist, and has appeared in more than 20 videos media companies / platforms such as: Make a Change World, AJ + (Al Jazeera Media Network), Athleta, and BRUT, ULYCES, Bright Vives, Kombini.She started a non-profit organization "5MBCF¨ and here, they have national and international campaigns and programs. One of them, "Ocean Heroes", has been adopted by The Clinton Foundation in New York. The program has already been implemented in Costa Rica and has impacted more than 1,000 students. They also created a national campaign to launch in 2020 to raise awareness on the use, disposal and recycling of cigarette butts, in alliance with Philip Morris International,the Municipality of Belen and University of CR. "Friends of the Ocean" is a sustainable tourism is a project and certification for hotels and restaurants plastic free, with stations that help recover plastic to then transform this into designed items.

Helping companies and organizations to become plastic waste free and to implement circular economy projects around the world.

Together with Alfredo Bolaños and Gabriel Bolaños. we are a Law Firm and a collective group of professionals from different fields with a focus on creating a positive and greater impact on local developments through legal advice and creative solutions. Our duty is mainly to provide our clients with legal tools, social and economic through our consultations and follow up on their needs in a holistic way.

BIONIC transforms plastics recovered from the coasts into high-quality threads that are then used to create textiles made of plastic and other high-performance products with clients such as O'Neill, Moncler®, G-STAR Raw®, H & M® Conscious, among others. With Bionic, she started their operations in Costa Rica to recover marine and coastal plastic to turn them into thread and other uses.Acted as a project manager and served as a liaison between the company with local government institutions and local organizations. Established a revolutionary center to recover and process marine plastic in the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.Fundraised and negotiated within the community to place 10 stations throughout the coast of the Nicoya Peninsula for the recovery of materials.Started an educational curriculum for the schools and community to learn to recycle all types of plastic.

Acting as Notary Public and transmitting judicial and extrajudicial documents in the receiving state.Helping and assisting helpless nationals. Safeguarding their interests and safeguard the interests of minors. Helping citizens with family reunification, medical emergencies and evacuations. Fighting human trafficking.Visiting arrested Costarricans and ensuring access to legal counsel. Helping and assisting detainees throughout the process of getting deported and in the process of extradition. Ensuring their human rights protection.Protecting in the Receiving State the rights and interests of the Republic of Costa Rica and its nationals, both individuals and bodies corporate, within the limits permitted by International Law.Leading and working with a team of highly qualified staff, developing innovative practices to protect citizens and borders.

Expert - delegate of the Security Council on Somalia, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Cote d'Ivoire.Backup Expert on Afghanistan, Liberia, Guinea Bissau and Georgia. Countries in the Peacebuilding Commission.Represented the country on the negotiation of the Resolution to fight Piracy and Armed Robbery at sea off the coast of Somalia.-General Assembly Expert for 2nd Committee:Served as an expert for Costa Rica on the negotiations of the final text adopted at the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus in Doha, Qatar in 2008.Drafted the comprehensive reform to the Security Council and its work methods. Worked with the Small Five Group (S5), of the resolution for Improving the Working Methods of the Security Council.

Assisted Regional Legal Adviser for Central America, Spanish speaking Caribbean countries and Mexico in International Humanitarian Law. Prepared documents / presentations related to ratifying, integrating and promoting treaties of international humanitarian law. Assisting and coordinating a broad network of governmental officials in different countries in Central America and Spanish speaking Caribbean as well as monitoring and reporting the measures/activities by them undertaken.

Working among three active and expanding areas: the Area for Good Governance and Human Progress, the Area for Peace and Human Security, and the Area for Higher Education and Research.