Valorie Castellanos Clark
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- 8 years experience in specialty coffee and 3 years non-profit experience through Go Fund Bean.
- Several appearances on Boss Barista podcast.
- Author of Unruly Figures released March 2024 from PA Press.
Experience
Valorie Clark is a writer, historian, and coffee fiend living in Los Angeles. She spent eight years working behind bar in coffee shops across the US and France before helping establish Go Fund Bean, a non-profit dedicated to uplifting hourly coffee workers. Today she writes for several food and travel related publications, including Simply Recipes, focusing on the intersection of history, culture, and food. Her first book, Unruly Figures, is out March 2024 from PA Press.
Favorite meal when you're cooking for yourself: "Pupusas! My mom's family is from El Salvador, and my grandmother made these all the time when I was growing up."
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