Story Project @ SCA Expo 2023: A Collaboration with IWCA Global
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:
What do producers hope to achieve, accomplish, or gain from attending SCA?
What does quality mean to each one of us?
How do we think about how quality intersects with value, and specifically how cup score or sensory qualities relate directly to farmgate prices?
It’s our hope that we can include women’s voices and perspectives into these larger industry questions that have been informing how we think about equity, standards, and calibration across continents. And we’re grateful for IWCA for permitting us to collaborate in this way.
We will be at the IWCA Global booth all weekend (Booth 1054).
If you are a producer or know a producer who would be interested in being interviewed:
We have a schedule here where you can sign up for a 30-minute window to reserve an interview. If you don’t see a spot listed, you’re still welcome to come by the booth in case things shift (we are expecting Expo to contain its share of controlled chaos, so times may change each day)!
If you are ATTEnding SCa & are interested in volunteering:
Thank you so much! We also have a calendar for volunteers to sign up for windows of time, which can be accessed here. We are looking for help for the following, in any increment of time (1 hour or more):
Being an extra interviewer in case we have more than one person at a time interested in being interviewed (we will have 2 mics)
Being a translator to host an interview in another language (Spanish, French, any language that you speak!) in case we have women who are non-native English speakers who would like to be interviews
Generally supporting our efforts by helping interviewees sign a release waiver, or anything else that needs organizing in the moment