For today’s episode of the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast, we are joined by Nani Ferreira-Mathews – Owner and Sales and Marketing Director of Thread Coffee Roasters. Nani has been working in specialty coffee since 2012. She started as a barista in a small Brooklyn coffee shop that featured Crop to Cup coffees. There she learned to pour latte art and how to properly brew coffee. She went onto roasting, production, and education for Joe Coffee and Nobletree in NYC. She was the Lead Educator and Sales and Marketing Director for Unique Coffee Roasters in Staten Island, NY. In 2017, she moved to Baltimore, MD to work with Woodberry Kitchen, Artifact Coffee, and Bird in Hand as coffee director and manager.
Since becoming an owner at Thread Coffee Roasters in 2018, Nani has grown this local business immensely. She has helped Thread to achieve co-operative ownership of their green coffee importer and recently received the high honor of B-Corp certification. Her dedicated work towards a more transparent, equitable and sustainable coffee industry has been recognized on an international level in recent years and has brought attention to Thread Coffee Roasters and Baltimore City on a global scale. Thread was named Best Coffee in Maryland by Food and Wine Magazine in 2019, and has had several notable mentions in Bon Appetit, Sprudge, Daily Coffee News and Roast Magazine. In Baltimore City, they offer free home delivery and have innovatively worked to create a zero-waste CSC (Community Supported Coffee) Coffee Refill Program. Thread’s importing practices have a carbon neutral goal for 2022, which will be achieved by offsetting carbon emissions through meticulous tracking at the farm and shipping level then offset by supporting and funding sustainability measures, such as shade grown coffee farms and increased biodiversity and soil health programs at the farm level. Nani has already achieved so much, but isn’t stopping anytime soon. She continues to make an impact and push for a more sustainable and equitable industry, helping to both facilitate a conversation and put into practice changes that are long overdue. When not working, Nani is an activist, writer and musician.
Go to https://www.threadcoffee.com/ to learn more about Thread Coffee and their mission…and maybe even pick up a bag of coffee while you’re there!
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