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The 2019-2020 Specialty Coffee Association<\/a> Board of Directors have been announced<\/a>. After a month-long voting cycle, the newest six members were announced by the SCA last Friday, December 7th; their terms begin January 1st, 2019.<\/p>\n Over the past year or so, the SCA has drawn criticism over the Board of Directors\u2019 lack of diverse representation, but with this most recent election, the voters put a mandate on diversity. Starting in 2019, the Board will be majority female and will better reflect not just the countries in which coffee is consumed, but also where it originates. Including not one but two successful petition candidates, the newly elected members represent a wide swath of coffee cultures including: Turkey, Singapore, Mexico, South Korea, and Kenya (two members).<\/p>\n The new members are:<\/p>\n Asli Yaman of KiMMA Coffee Roasters<\/a> According the announcement, they will be replacing the follow members currently sitting on the Board:<\/p>\n Paul Stack of Marco Beverage Systems<\/a>, who most recently served as President Along with the addition of the new members, already existing Board members will be taking on news roles. Klatch<\/a>\u2019s Heather Perry will take over as president, Julius Meinl<\/a>\u2019s Christina Meinl will become vice president, S&D Coffee<\/a>\u2019s Tracy Ging becomes the 2nd<\/sup> vice president, and Wave Investments<\/a>\u2019 Nils Erichsen moves to treasurer.<\/p>\n For more information on the 2019-2020 Board of Directors, visit the SCA’s official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Zac Cadwalader<\/a>\u00a0is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.\u00a0Read more Zac Cadwalader\u00a0on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Top image via the SCA<\/em><\/p>\n The post Meet The Six Newest Members Of The SCA Board Of Directors<\/a> appeared first on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: Coffee News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2019-2020 Specialty Coffee Association Board of Directors have been announced. After a month-long voting cycle, the newest six members were announced by the SCA last Friday, December 7th; their…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[63,27,65,33,61,32,59,31,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nPamela Chng of Bettr Barista<\/a>
\nVava Angwenyi of Vava Coffee<\/a>
\nVera Espindola Rafael of the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food in Mexico<\/a> (SAGARPA)
\nMbula Musau of Utake Coffee Limited<\/a>
\nChoi Seongil of Choi Coffee Company<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nMary Tellie of Electric City Coffee Roasting<\/a>, who most recently served as Treasurer
\nAndrew Linnemann of Starbucks<\/a>
\nChad Trewick of Reciprocaf\u00e9
\nFrank Neuhausen of BWT water+more<\/a>
\nChahan Yeretzian of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences<\/a>\u00a0(ZHAW)
\nTodd Mackey of Olam Specialty Coffee<\/a>. Sarah Leslie of Leslie Coffee Co.<\/a> will take the Barista Guild ex-officio seat.
\nKonrad Oleksak of Kofi Brand<\/a> will step down on February 1, 2019. Emilio Lopez Diaz of Cuatro M Single Origin Coffees<\/a>\u00a0will take the Coffee Roasters Guild ex-officio seat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n