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16 Fresh Cup Magazine | freshcup.com CONTRIBUTORS As a member of a small team, San Diego Coffee Network event coor- dinator and lead instructor MATT BARAHURA wears many hats. But his experience as a barista competing at the local, regional, and national levels makes him an ideal coordinator for the SDCN's competitive events. He and SDCN director of operations JESSICA PERCIFIELD—the team's relationship, business, social media, and event man- ager—penned this month's Nine Bars, with a focus on how those events help strengthen community among baristas and coffee drinkers alike. Read more on the SDCN's wildly popular Thursday Night Throwdowns on p. 40. Obsessed with beverages and the rituals that connect us through them, EMILY MCINTYRE is a barista mar- ried to a roaster and Q Grader who spe- cializes in writing about beverages in a wide variety of venues from Paste to Serious Eats: Drinks to Fresh Cup and the Reno Gazette-Journal. Based in Portland, Oregon, she also works with The LAB, a beverage marketing and creative firm that brings the Caffeine Crawl to coffee communities around the country. She tackles the subject of coffee careers—or how to make a living while staying in coffee—in her feature "Going Pro," p. 56. JIMMY SHERFEY is a freelance journalist covering specialty coffee production in Central America and the slow food movement in the southeast- ern United States. He runs the Central Florida coffee blog Abeja de Café and is proud to live and work in Orlando's burgeoning Audubon Park Garden District, a bright beacon of urban farming, local food, diverse fauna, and genuine community. He traveled to El Salvador for his story "Experiments with Tradition," p. 62. JEANETTE DAINTY is NessAlla Kombucha's staff "mixtress" and spe- cial events planner. She carries a brain full of kombucha cocktail ideas and a black and white composition book for those too elaborate to memorize. A seasoned mixologist, hobbyist writer, and proud mother of two living in Madison, Wisconsin, she serves up some tried and true kombucha cock- tail recipes in this month's The Whole Leaf (p. 34). When longtime friends Jelynn Sophia and BEVERLY MAGTANONG returned to their hometown of San Diego after years away, they knew they wanted to invest in their local community, as well as continue the philanthropic work they'd been doing in the Philippines. They teamed up with local chef Mike Arquines, who'd begun roasting coffee as a hobby, and Mostra Coffee was formed with the goal of eventually doing direct trade with coffee farmers in the Philippines. Beverly penned this month's First Crack, on the roastery's collaboration with a local brewery (p. 36). May14_magazine.indd 16 4/18/14 10:42 AM