10/09/2026
Meet Jennie. Our spunky and funny barista. She’s been in coffee for almost 5 years and is very passionate about coffee and the ethics around it. Jennie works at both Evanston and our Northwestern location and is a support role at both cafes! She is a team player and has the best shoes! When she’s not pouring latte art, she is down at the city doing improv!
Favorite drink: drip coffee
Favorite hobby: writing, drawing, tabletop gaming!
Coffee is such a deceptively simple thing - in the West, we largely think of it as fuel, as something to consume and dispose of, not something worth time and effort to get to know better. but the truth is, every cup of coffee we consume takes hundreds of hours of real, human labor to produce! and most of the time, that labor is matched with just as much exploitation, with farmers getting paid pennies by large corporations who then sell their product for much more than they paid for it. i see it as my responsibility to respect their time and labor by respecting the coffee i make. we owe it to them to find excellence in every cup. and if i can make even one person think more deeply about where their coffee came from and what it took to get it in that mug, i’d call that a job well done! coffee is diverse and mysterious, and can always tell a story about the humans who make it possible.
