Otero was born in La Paz, Bolivia, [REF] and moved to the United States at the age of 12 when her father was one of the founding officers of the Inter-American Development Bank [REF].
She is married to Joseph T. Eldridge, a human rights advocate who is Senior Fellow at the Washington Office of Latin America (WOLA) and was, for 19 years the head chaplain at American University [REF].