Hospitality student markets coffee from her rural Guatemalan village
September 18, 2024
September 18, 2024
ITHACA, New York, Sept. 18 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Martina Pablo Pablo '26 starting picking coffee beans when she was five years old, on her father's small plot of land in a remote area in Guatemala.
Although her homeplace, in the mountains of Las Sierras de los Cuchumantantes, has a unique microclimate that yields exceptional coffee, three-quarters of the Mam Maya people in the area suffer from poverty. Pablo Pablo's parents and neighbors strug . . .
Martina Pablo Pablo '26 starting picking coffee beans when she was five years old, on her father's small plot of land in a remote area in Guatemala.
Although her homeplace, in the mountains of Las Sierras de los Cuchumantantes, has a unique microclimate that yields exceptional coffee, three-quarters of the Mam Maya people in the area suffer from poverty. Pablo Pablo's parents and neighbors strug . . .