Doc of Choc: Trade Justice and Chocolate with Dr. Kristy Leissle

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English - June 16, 2021 21:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MB
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Previous Episode: Child Labor in Chocolate: Ayn Riggs of Slave Free Chocolate

Next Episode: Green America: Campaigning Corporations for Change in the Cocoa Industry

Today I’m sharing my conversation with professor and cocoa scholar Dr. Kristy Leissle. She literally wrote the book when it comes to the cocoa and chocolate industry-- her book Cocoa explores the cocoa world from a variety of angles.

Dr. Leissle is unique because of the perspectives that she takes in learning about this issue. I really enjoyed getting to ask her a few lingering questions that I had after finishing her book. Here’s our conversation-- we discussed everything from trade justice to her work at the Cocoapreneurship Institute of Ghana.

This is our third podcast episode in this month's Impactfull series. Check out the articles and the rest of the series here: www.impactfull.novelhand.com