Background
Bonifaz maintains a private practice in Amherst, Mass. with his father, Cristobal Bonifaz. The office specializes in international human rights and environmental law cases, and has litigated against Chevron Corporation regarding pollution in the Lago Agrio oil field in the Ecuadorian Amazon. (Cristobal Bonifaz is a native of Ecuador.)
Bonifaz's great-grandfather was Neptalí Bonifaz, who was briefly president of Ecuador in 1931.
A graduate of Brown University in 1987 and Harvard Law School cum laude in 1992, Bonifaz and his wife, Lissa Pierce Bonifaz, live in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston with their one year old daughter. Lissa holds a doctorate in bilingual education and works as a professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, where she teaches in the Language and Literacy Division of Lesley's School of Education.
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