We’re so excited to announce that we are collaborating with IWCA Global at this year’s SCA Expo in Portland. We proposed the possibility of hosting short audio interviews (a format we felt would be the least burdensome in an already overwhelming weekend) of women producers to ask 3 critical questions that have been at the top of our minds this year.
Read MoreWe are very grateful to have met Giselle Barrera earlier this year. Giselle is the founder of Latinas in Coffee, a social impact movement on social media. Her goal is to connect, support, and feature women from Latin America working in the coffee industry—to ultimately empower women and create stronger community networks together.
She recently launched an incredible project called the Latinas in Coffee Scholarship Fund in order to break down the still-present barriers women face when accessing education. We’re honored to collaborate with Giselle and Latinas in Coffee in sharing this scholarship fund with the industry at large!
Read MoreAre you a womxn coffee producer? Are you a coffee roaster sourcing coffees produced by women? We’d love to ask you for a huge favor, in order to better serve everyone in the coffee industry. We’ve created a couple of surveys to better understand the supply streams where we work.
Read MoreDue to many global stresses, the price of coffee on the commodity market has been extremely volatile and has mostly trended upward. The price to purchase coffee has gone up, but for many coffee producers, the expense to produce coffee has increased at an even greater rate. The purpose of this panel event is to offer visibility for the producer experience when it comes to talking about price, and attempt to underline some of the more vulnerable aspects to price transparency that are often overlooked.
Read MoreTo celebrate Women's History Month, we hosted a virtual panel event on women's access to healthcare. This topic is both local & global: it affects our coffee supply chain every day, but is rarely discussed. In this talk, "Women in Coffee: Access to Healthcare & Barriers to Reproductive Justice," we invited two medical professionals with experience in both the US and countries where coffee is grown to discuss their work to put women at the center.
Read MoreIn honor of our panel event Women in Coffee: Access to Healthcare & Barriers to Reproductive Justice, we thought we’d share a list of resources for further reading. As you know by now, this is something we take very seriously — the ability to educate ourselves and our communities, account for any unconscious biases, and make visible the invisible forces that obfuscate the path to true equity. Many of these resources are on the topic of racial inequities when it comes to public health, an inextricable element of gender inequity.
Read MoreThis year, to celebrate International Women’s Day, we’re releasing a document we’ve been working on to highlight coffees produced by women. One of the questions we are asked most frequently is “What can I do?” meaning "How can I support women in coffee-growing countries?” Our answer — invest in more visibility for women producers and the roasting companies who are doing the good work of diverting as much value to those women as possible. We put together a list of roasted coffees — that have been produced by women -- you can buy online from roasters who care about gender equity.
Read MoreOn February 12, 2022, we co-hosted a panel event on the topic of defining specialty coffee. The conversation was prompted by an online discussion group, Facticity Coffee Club, in response to the SCA White Paper “Towards a Definition of Specialty Coffee: Building an Understanding Based on Attributes.” After various separate discussions with different producers, we chose to collaborate with the Honduras chapter of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance to make the conversation more public, and also highlight the important fact that coffee producers should be in the driver’s seat when it comes to complex definitions that have an impact on the global marketplace.
Read MoreIn February 2019, business leader, author, and speaker Phyllis Johnson gave a compelling keynote speech at a major coffee conference in Kigali, Rwanda, focusing on how coffee professionals need to pay more attention to black consumers and to value the women who are "the backbone of the industry." Inspired by her words, we decided to celebrate International Women’s Day with a conversation to address the intersection of race and gender.
Read MoreThis year, we challenged ourselves to engage with one thing a day related to race and gender. It could be a podcast, a webinar recording, a video, an article, starting a new book, anything. We started compiling resources for ourselves right as the month began, and we’re excited to share them with you here. Of course, this isn’t an exhaustive list of these complex topics — it’s just a beginning. Challenging ourselves to start learning and engaging is the first step, and it’s our hope that it’ll build a positive habit.
Read MoreIn times like these, it is hard to find strong enough language to express solidarity, anger at inequity, the injustices by society against the minority, the gross and systemic betrayal of what we call humanity, the polarization and gaslighting of the experiences of others, to list but a few.
Read MoreMeu nome é Manoela Dueñas, analista de sustentabilidade na Olam Coffee Brasil.
Meu nome é Daniela Cardoso Rego, eu sou a gerente e Q Arabica Grader na Olam Coffee Brasil.
Read MoreMy name is Manoela Dueñas, sustainability analyst at Olam Coffee Brazil.
My name is Daniela Cardoso Rego, I am a manager and Q Arabica Grader at Olam coffee in Brazil.
Read MoreRuth Ann Church, President, Artisan Coffee Imports. Very busy all the time as a sole-proprietor business owner. Like many women, I was trained that I would need to work hard.
Read More“Grounds for Health (GfH) has been around since 1996, and over these years our approach to how we do things has evolved, in step with changes in cervical cancer prevention and the areas we serve. But our focus has always been on reaching women in very remote, coffee growing regions.”
Read MoreMe llamo Marianela Montero. Yo manejo mi propia empresa Selva Coffee en Costa Rica. Selva Coffee trabajamos con aproximadamente 40 productores pequeños y les ayudamos de promover su cafe. Tambien ayudamos a los tostadores y importadores de encontrar cafes increibles y transparentes, y construir relaciones sostenibles con todos nuestros socios en el proceso.
Read MoreMy name is Marianela Montero. I run my own company Selva Coffee in Costa Rica. Selva Coffee works with about 40 smallholder producers and helps them promote their coffee. We also assist roasters and importers to find amazing, transparent coffees and build sustainable relationships with all of our partners in the process.
Read MoreMi nombre es Samantha Romero y me encuentro trabajando en Olam Nicaragua como Specialty Coffee coordinator desde finales de setiembre. Pero en Olam Specialty Coffee comencé trabajando en Octubre del 2018.
Read MoreMy name is Samantha Romero and I work in Olam Nicaragua as Specialty Coffee Coordinator since the end of September. My coffee story in Olam started in October 2018.
Read MoreA little backstory: we decided to encourage ourselves to seek a more comprehensive and immersive understanding of the peoples, cultures, and histories behind coffee. So we’re reading books together, which is one of the best ways we know to begin to imagine what a culture outside of ours is like.
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