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We're on tour with a Fair Trade Coffee Farmer & Artisan!

Parker Townley April 18, 2013

We’re on tour with Miguel Mateo, Fair Trade Coffee Farmer, and Gloria Chonay, Fair Trade Basket Weaver, b6th from Guatemala. We’ll be visiting Fair Trade Campaigns along the Eastern seaboard giving the0 a chance to meet the beneficiaries of Fair Trade first-hand. We want everyone who advocates and purchases Fair Trade to meet these amazing individuals so we’ll be streaming presentations while on the road – you have the chance to meet them live! Check out our schedule below.

Farmer Tour – Miguel Mateo

Miguel is the Marketing Manager at a coffee cooperative in Guatemalan

Miguel is the Marketing Manager at a coffee cooperative in Guatemalan

April 17th – Keene, NH & Brattleboro, VT

  • 10:00 am: Presentation at Keene State College, Young Student Center
  • 4:00 pm: Meet & Greet at Brattleboro Food Co-op

April 19th – Bronx, NY

  • 11:10 am: Presentation (in Spanish) at Manhattan College, Alumni Room of O’Malley Library

April 20th – Princeton, NJ

  • 1:30 pm: Earth Day celebration at Whole Earth Center

April 21st – Teaneck, NJ

  • 10:00 am: Coffee Tasting and Social Hour at Teaneck General Store
  • 2:00 pm: Interfaith Discussion at Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church

April 22nd – Boston, MA

  • 3:00 pm: Meet & Greet at Ten Thousand Villages

April 23rd – Boston, MA

  • 4:00 pm: Presentation at Simmons College
  • 6:30 pm: Presentation at Boston University

Artisan Tour – Gloria Chonay

Glorai is the leader of a bakset weaving cooperative

Gloria is the leader of a basket weaving cooperative

 

 

 

April 20th – Galloway, NJ

  • 2:00 pm: Weaving demonstration at Herban Legends

April 21st – Media, PA

  • 1:00 – 3:00 pm: Weaving demonstration at Ten Thousand Villages
  • 3:00 – 5:00 pm: Weaving demonstration at Earth & State

April 22nd – Philadelphia, PA

  • 11:00 am – 2:00 pm: Weaving demonstration at Drexel University Earth Day Block Party
  • 6:00 pm: Presentation at Villanova’s Driscoll Hall

April 24th – Pittsburgh, PA

  • 6:30 – 8:30 pm: Weaving demonstration at East End Co-op

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April 26th – Murfreesboro, TN

  • 12:00 – 3:30 pm: Presentation at Middle Tennessee State University, State Farm Room S102

April 27th – Atlanta, GA

  • 11:30 am – 1:30 pm: Presentation at Oglethorpe University

April 28th – Greensboro, NC

  • 3:00 -5:00 pm: Weaving Demonstration at Ten Thousand Villages

April 29th – Chapel Hill, NC

  • 5:00 – 7:00 pm: Weaving Demonstration at Ten Thousand Villages

April 30th – Durham & Raleigh, NC

  • 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Weaving Demonstration at Ten Thousand Villages
  • 5:00 – 8:00 pm: Weaving Demonstration at Ten Thousand Villages

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Parker Townley, National Organizer | Fair Trade Colleges & Universities

Parker Townley works for Fair Trade Colleges and Universities to help connect students and faculty with the resources they need to effectively campaign for Fair Trade on campus. In his free time Parker explores the Sierra Nevadas with his trusty backpack, roams the Bay Area in search of the perfect cup of coffee, and cultivates a small veggie garden.