What is your position in the coffee industry?

barista

Where are you located? ( City and Country )

New Orleans

How many years have you been in the industry?

2

If you are a barista or shop, are you interested in a barista exchange with another coffee shop/barista?

yes

Tell us more about your coffee shop or barista skills.

Z'otz - Independent Goth-owned coffeehouse on Oak Street, uptown New Orleans. Communitarian hub. Fair trade and organic goods. Tendencies towards cooperative management, if not ownership. Supplied by Coffee Roasters of New Orleans. I have no special powers.

What cities or countries are you interested in traveling to?

Any city in Maine, Iowa, Oregon, Kentucky, or Montana. Outside the country: Senegal, South Korea, Bolivia, Mongolia, Iran, Vietnam.

About Me:

Derelict graduate student with ties to coffee producers in Guatemala, and to agricultural cooperatives in Latin America and the US. Want to get more involved in the Fair Trade and Cooperative movements.

About My Company:

I am permissively egalitarian and scandalously ecumenical in my choices about the company I keep, but I prefer people who are not assholes.

What is your favorite thing about the coffee industry?

Independent coffeehouses that serve as neighborhood and community hubs for the rootless and disaffected.

Website:

https://www.windigopsychosis.org