Board of Directors

Helen Voogd, Bean North - Chair

Terry Patano, DOMA Coffee Roasters - Vice-chair

Birth Name – Terry Vincent Patano Born – August 6th, 1956 Origin – Kellogg, Idaho Died – not yet Genres – Punk rock, rock and roll, reggae, ska, jazz and world music. Occupation – Coffee Roaster Instrument – Loring Smart Roast Years active – Still Labels – Mondo, Doma Coffee Roasting Company Website – www.domacoffee.com

Quote - "It was true that I didn't have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?"
Or in my case, become a coffee roaster.

Chris Treter, Higher Grounds Trading Co. - Secretary

Dan Bailey, Amavida Coffee - Treasurer

Matt Earley, Just Coffee Cooperative

Monika Firl (CoopSol) Manager 

Monika has worked with a variety of locally based development projects, while living in Central America and Mexico from 1991 to 2000. Her experiences range from founding and directing a center in San Salvador for the exchange of information on alternative technology, to direct participation in technical training and marketing development with coffee producers’ cooperatives in Chiapas— including Mut Vitz and Maya Vinic from whom Cooperative Coffees maintains a relationship.  From 1996 to 2000 she coordinated a regional program within the Campesino a Campesino network for information exchange on production practices for organic coffee and viable market alternatives among farmers from Chiapas and the rest of Central America.