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Ep 19: Margaret Nyamumbo, Kahawa 1893 Coffee - Energizing Women's Empowerment by the Cup

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English - November 03, 2021 09:00 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
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This week, I spoke to Margaret Nyamumbo, Founder and CEO of Kahawa 1893 Coffee, a brand of Kenyan coffee ethically sourced by women farmers. The heartbeat of Kahawa 1893 Coffee is Margaret’s passion for empowering women and ending the cycle of poverty.

Margaret is a third-generation coffee farmer who immigrated to the United States from Kenya, searching for greener pastures. After earning an MBA from Harvard, she went on to get a dream job on Wall Street. However, Margaret kept feeling a tug to something familiar. She found herself being lured to conduct coffee taste tests on her days off. Her passion for coffee was reignited.

“You cannot do something that you are not passionate about for so long.” - Margaret

Margaret wanted to do more than sell coffee; she founded Kahawa 1893 with a goal to bridge the gender gap in the coffee sector. African farmers produce what is considered the best coffee in the world, yet their compensation is not commensurate with their hard work. Furthermore, women are at an even greater diadvantage as they comprise 90% of the workforce yet own 1% of the farmland.

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