Livelihoods in Coffee Episode #4: Different Approaches to Living Wage and Living Salary in Coffee
Update: Episode #4 recorded on Thursday, July 22.
Join us for our final session in the Livelihoods in Coffee webinar series, this Thursday, July 22.
Livelihoods in Coffee is an ongoing conversation within our community. The final episode of the series will look into different practices and ways a living wage/living salary can be made available to all employees of an organization. We will be joined by three businesses representatives from around the world — Kopplin's Coffee, Quijote Kaffee, and Cafe con Jiribilla — who will share their stories, their ideas and also pathways on how living wage/living salary was implemented into their organizations.
About Carlos de la Torre
Carlos de la Torre is the founder of Cafe Avellaneda and co-founder of Cafe con Jiribilla a coffee shop and a roastery in Mexico City. During his career in the specialty coffee industry he has achieved titles such as 2012 Mexican Cup Tasting Champion, 2015 & 2016 Mexican Brewers Cup Champion, 2018 & 2019 Mexican Barista Champion and 2019 L.A. Coffee Master. At the moment he invest part of his time in Ratiorama a collaborative project promoting up-coming roasters, coffee shops and coffee professionals from his scene in a monthly subscription format to build a closer community between consumers and professionals.
About Matt Roebuck
In 2010, when I was 18 years old, I became a Barista because of my personal interest in coffee and the varied work it takes along the value chain. I have worked in a variety of coffee shops, Bars, and roasteries with very different coffees and styles of roasting and preparation.
I have also worked as a sample roaster and cupper for a Cooperative APECAP in Palanda in the south of Ecuador. I am now 30 years old and I work as a coffee roaster as part of a collectively run direct import roastery, Quijote Kaffee.
I'm from the Frankfurt am Main area and my main interest next to plants humans cultivate and consume is music, bicycle and roundnet.
About Andrew Kopplin
Andrew Kopplin lives in St Paul, MN, where he and his spouse co-own and operate Kopplin's Coffee (est. 2006), while raising their two children. Since January of 2015, the business has paid all it's employees $15/hr.
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