By DONALD SCHOENHOLT This year marks the 30th specialty coffee conference put on by the association. For perspective on the earliest gatherings, we turned to Donald Schoenholt, who was the first president of the Specialty Coffee Association of America, and instrumental in the early growth of the specialty association and industry. He runs Gillies Coffee …
By TODD MACKEY Established in 2016, and since its inception hosted in Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco, Bloom was created by the BGA to bring together some of the best minds in coffee. The event aims to ignite a national conversation while illuminating the ideas that emerge. Attendees listen, ponder, and respond to thought-leaders …
By ANGELA PELAEZ My journey through the labor issue started long time ago when I was a young woman helping my father in our coffee farm. During that time workers’ scarcity was not a big issue but poverty, invisibility and vulnerability have been a permanent menace for farmworkers. Decades later I had the fortune to …
By LYELA MUTSIYA As a coffee farmers daughter I understand the challenges my father faces and it is important for me to do something about it. In 2017 I established Kenspeco (short for Kenya Specialty Coffee) a coffee exporting and farm management company. I opened this company with one goal in mind, to eradicate poverty …
The 2018 SCA Sustainability Award winners, Manos al Agua and Twin UK, were recognized on the Re:co Symposium stage this Thursday, April 19th. The awards, created in 2004, recognize outstanding work in the field of sustainability in the coffee industry. Manos al Agua, a program of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia (FNC), …