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Three Questions with Coffee and Beverage Expert Piper Jones

Anyone spotting Piper Jones at the recent International Women’s Coffee Alliance convention in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, likely found her genuinely listening, deeply engaged in a one-on-one conversation, almost in awe...

2024.07.18

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Three Questions with Francis Kungu of Kenya-Focused Jamii Coffee

Francis Kungu can recall his younger days sitting with his friends at a pub across the street from a coffee farm in rural Kenya. “We used to swear that we’d...

2024.07.09

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Three Questions with Vikram Patel of PNG-Focused Benchmark Coffee Traders

After passing the Illinois state bar, Vikram Patel practiced law for two years. During that time, he was also sowing the seeds of a green coffee business that has since...

2024.06.20

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Three Questions with Ben Carlson of Long Miles Coffee Project

Responding to past injustices in Burundi’s industry and building upon their own careers in coffee, Ben and Kristy Carlson started Long Miles Coffee Project in 2011. The coffee production and...

2024.05.29

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Three Questions with Firaol Ahmed of Moii Coffee

On Friday, April 12, as thousands of coffee professionals were gathered in Chicago for the Specialty Coffee Expo, Saint Louis University junior Firaol Ahmed was lacing up his track shoes...

2024.05.08

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Three Questions with Gabriela Parfait of The Good Sourcing

After eight years working for the French green coffee importing company Belco, Gabriela Parfait has launched a coffee-focused company called The Good Sourcing. The new venture is intentionally small, although...

2024.01.26

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Best of ‘Three Questions’ 2023: Coffee Leaders Speak Up

Never in Daily Coffee News history has our “Three Questions” series traveled so much ground in a single year. In 2023, we gathered insights from people working in all corners...

2023.12.30

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Three Questions with Rwandan Coffee Expert Laetitia Mukandahiro

In a sunny yellow room with a large coffee taster’s flavor wheel on one wall and a branded jute bag on the opposite wall, Laetitia Mukandahiro and Uzziel Habimana of...

2023.11.27

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Three Questions with Aimerance Merveille of Semilla Coffee

Aimerance Merveille can recall childhood days in the Democratic Republic of Congo — wearing her favorite red floral dress, watching her brothers play soccer, daydreaming. Yet while other children were...

2023.11.22

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Three Questions with Muna Mohammed of Canada’s Eight50 Coffee

Born in Ethiopia as the granddaughter of a coffee farmer but raised mainly in Canada, Eight50 Coffee Founder Muna Mohammed had a profound experience when seeing coffee’s origins for the...

2023.10.12

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