Honoring Our Roots: An Immigrant’s Perspective I was born in Zona 14 in Guatemala City, Guatemala.  After a series of setbacks that led to a journey throughout four different countries in Latin America, my family was able to immigrate to...

I want to address a trend that’s being touted as a positive development in the coffee industry: US coffee roasters’ vertical integration through the opportunistic acquisition of coffee farms. The narrative goes like this: owning a farm streamlines the supply...