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Over the past very troubling 18 months, America has become increasingly hostile toward refugees and their families seeking to start a new life without living under the threat of violence. For its part, the coffee industry at large has pushed back on these encroaching hyper-nationalist tendencies in an attempt to show that a country of immigrants still welcomes immigrants. Efforts have ranged from nationwide<\/a> fundraisers<\/a> for the ACLU<\/a> and ASAP<\/a> to simple gestures of making it explicit that their cafe is a safe space for everyone<\/a>.<\/p>\n And now Berkeley, California\u2019s 1951 Coffee Company<\/a> is looking to continue the conversation by exploring what it means to be a refugee in coffee in America. Taking place Tuesday July 24th, \u201cRefugees Welcome? Perspectives on Inclusion in Specialty Coffee<\/a>\u201d will dive into what it means to be a refugee in America and the role the coffee industry has played in the process of resettling.<\/p>\n According to their website, 1951 Coffee is \u201ca non-profit specialty coffee organization seeking to promote the well-being of the refugee community in the San Francisco Bay Area by providing job training and employment to refugees and asylees while educating the surrounding community about refugee life and issues.\u201d For Refugees Welcome?, 1951 Coffee teamed up with the Bay Area Coffee Community<\/a> (BACC) to host a panel discussion on \u201cemploying refugees in the coffee industry.\u201d Panelists will include graduates of 1951\u2019s barista training program that have gone on to find jobs at Blue Bottle<\/a>, Dandelion Chocolate<\/a>, and Mazarine Coffee<\/a> who will be sharing their experiences as new baristas and new Americans.<\/p>\n After the panel discussion, 1951 Coffee and the BACC will \u201creview some practical ways to implement more inclusive hiring, on-boarding, and training practices.\u201d<\/p>\n Refugees Welcome? Perspectives on Inclusion in Specialty Coffee is free to attend but due to its limited capacity, 1951 Coffee asks that only coffee professionals come to the event. To register for the event, visit the Refugees Welcome? Eventbrite page<\/a>. For more information, visit their Facebook event page<\/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 1951 Coffee.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Refugees Welcome? A Panel On The Perspectives Of Refugees In Coffee<\/a> appeared first on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: Coffee News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the past very troubling 18 months, America has become increasingly hostile toward refugees and their families seeking to start a new life without living under the threat of violence….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,41],"tags":[63,45,65,47,61,49,59,67,55,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865"}],"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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}