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David Griswold, a former president of the Specialty Coffee Association of America, has been working with smallholder coffee growers for the past 18 years. Griswold has worked extensively in international development with several non-profit organizations and as a journalist in the developing world during his Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Prior to his work as a coffee importer and market builder for organic, fair trade and shade grown coffees, Griswold served as the Acting Director for Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. He began his work at Ashoka under the mentorship of William Drayton as Ashoka's first Communication's Director, a position he held from 1987 through 1989.
Griswold's coffee career began in 1989 when he began his first importing and marketing office for an Ashoka Fellow who was helping Mexican coffee cooperatives find new markets. With these cooperatives, Griswold co-founded Aztec Harvest, the first coffee importing and marketing office owned by small-scale Mexican coffee growers, which he directed from 1990 to 1995. Aztec Harvest's organic coffee beans were named as a flavor of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, and were the featured coffee on United Airlines flights between the US and Mexico.
David has served as a delegate to the International Coffee Organization's Sustainable Task Force, the Advisory Board for Coffee Kids and the Board of Directors of the Specialty Coffee Association of America. He speaks English and Spanish.
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