Women in the Coffee Industry
Coroco Coffee Roaster Collective is proud to be a female-owned company. Led by Karen Weckerly, we seek to empower women both as roasters and producers. Many of our coffees assist in the development of woman-led family cooperatives. Fair Trade Cooperatives are a business system designed to help producers achieve better trading conditions to benefit small-scale farmers and workers. Cooperatives are made up of farmers that produce the coffee. These small community associations are democratically structured to allow the producers to participate in decision-making, support each other, and determine how funds will be used from the Cooperative within the community....

