Candelaria Silva


About Candelaria Silva

Candelaria Silva-Collins is a marketing, community outreach and programming consultant; writer; and trainer/facilitator who lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She has designed and facilitated workshops on a wide variety of topics including communication, facilitation, job search skills, team building, and parenting issues. She currently coordinates the Community Membership Program of the Huntington Theatre Company. Her work as Director of ACT Roxbury was profiled in several publications, including The Creative Communities Builders Handbook. Candelaria’s children’s stories, short stories, essays and reviews have been published in local and national publications and she is an active blogger. Her publications include the booklets, Handling Rejection; Pushing through Shyness: Networking Tips when You’re Shy, Slow to Warm Up or Just don’t Feel you Belong; and Real Questions about Sex & Relationships for Teens: A Discussion Guide for Parents. She has served on the boards of Goddard College, Wheelock Family Theatre, Boston Foundation for Architecture, and Discover Roxbury. She is currently Chair, Designators of the Henderson Foundation.


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Watching you, watching me

Couples tend to watch each other:  he watches my food intake, I watch his drinking.  Watching…noticing personal habits, foibles, tendencies and […]













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Portable Happiness

I carry happiness with me. While walking yesterday, while riding the T today, while doing some spring cleaning this past […]




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Pre-Existing Condition

My pre-existing condition is that I’m human. As a human being, I am both strong and fragile. Accidents, maladies, genetic […]


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Touched back

Touched Backcopyright then & 2010 by Candelaria Silva Brothers, when I touch youI’m trying to communicate the feeling.Black man,when I touch youI want […]




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To Gossip or Not

Have you ever had a tidbit or a big-bit of gossip that was so delicious, so wicked, so full-of-places for […]