Kimberly Easson

Summary of background and qualifications:

• President, JavaVentures leading educational coffee tours for hundreds of industry members

• Director of Strategic Relationships, TransFair USA connecting family farmers, advocates, businesses and consumers to help create a truly sustainable model of trade

• Four years experience serving as SCAA Board member with an excellence attendance record

• Published author of numerous articles on topics critical to the coffee industry

• Masters’ degree in International Business gives me a foundation for understanding of business and the global economic and political context in which the coffee industry exists. 

• Eight years volunteer work on the SCAA conference & consumer marketing committees, four years as a committee chair

• Fluent in Spanish and English. Conversant in Portuguese.

• 13 years coffee industry experience, including four years living and working in Costa Rica and now working with hundreds of specialty roasters, retailers and food markets across the USA

• Founder of the SCAA Amigos del Cafe program to provide Spanish language presentations at the SCAA conference for farmer members

• Founder, Brewing Hope raised nearly $30,000 in relief funds and goods for victims of Hurricane Mitch in 1998

• Energetic, passionate, committed leader with a high degree of professional and personal integrity

• Ability and desire to bring people together to take productive and mutually beneficial actions