Carolina started teaching in 2010 at Rutgers University and learning with her students has become one of her life passions. Her approach to the classroom follows Audre Lorde and Paulo Freire in seeking to build a community of liberatory practice. In her fourteen years teaching (first in Women’s and Gender Studies and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers, and now at the Warwick Law School), Carolina has organized various events on pedagogy along with fellow educators, and she has taught several of her classes in collaboration with local community centers. 

As a teacher, Carolina has become a firm believer in the need to abolish the grading system in education and to dismantle the neoliberal system that underpins the university. In collaboration with Stina Soderling she made a video for Critical Legal Thinking called “Against Grading,” and they wrote an essay for Feminist Formations titled “Against Grading: Feminist Studies beyond the Neoliberal University.”  Following its publication in 2021, Stina and Carolina, along with Liz Montegary, founded “Beyond Grading,” a study group on assessment practices for feminist faculty with members at over a dozen colleges and universities. Carolina and Stina are working on a new project called Beyond the University; an anthology of essays by scholars who have left academia for alternative forms of pedagogy and action upon the world. 

Other than her work on imagining alternative ways of learning and teaching, in her current position at the Warwick Law School, Carolina designed the class Issues in the Legal History of Race where she and her students engage with different theorists from across the world in exploring the relation between pedagogy, colonialism and the law.