After reading a “best of” list of baristas in a local newspaper, Brittney Balestra noticed there were no womxn mentioned. So she created her own award celebrating womxn in the Colorado Springs coffee scene. BY […]
Launching as a “giveback” coffee concept, new St. Louis café Lola Jean’s has partnered with Kaldi’s Coffee to raise money for local charities. BY CHRIS RYAN BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE Russell Ping owns several eponymous Russell’s Cafe […]
Folks from the NYC Democratic Socialists of America, the NYC Industrial Workers of the World, and Strikecorps came together to host a panel about unions and organizing workers. BY HONDA WANG SPECIAL TO BARISTA MAGAZINE […]
Held in partnership with events and promotion company Advanced Placement, Pacific Foods’ recent Community Day events in Seattle and Los Angeles brought together baristas and other coffee pros to provide food and supplies for in-need […]
The Pour is a media platform telling stories about the coffee community—from Becca Woodard’s Brewers Cup win to highlighting local coffee organizations and cafés like the Boston Intersectional Coffee Collective and Deadstock Coffee in Portland, […]
Glitter Cat Barista Bootcamp, started by USBC runner-up T. Ben Fischer, aims to provide competition training to baristas in marginalized groups in an all-expenses paid retreat. BY ASHLEY RODRIGUEZ BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE Cover photo courtesy […]
The San Diego Coffee Training Institute aims to bring free coffee training to the homeless population of San Diego, becoming the first SCA-certified campus focused on providing training to marginalized communities. BY RJ JOSEPH SPECIAL […]
Inhabiting a marginalized identity means working harder to be heard—Queer Wave Coffee fights to promote the voices of the marginalized and give space to the queer community in coffee. BY ASHLEY RODRIGUEZ BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE […]
The event, organized by New York City coffee professional Erika Vonie, brought together female-identifying and gender non-conforming members of the specialty-coffee community to listen to each other and brainstorm strategies to combat abuse, bias, and […]
The Bay Area Coffee Community and the Barista Guild of America are looking for folks to join their boards—are you the right person for the job? BY ASHLEY RODRIGUEZ BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE Cover photo by […]
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