CEO/ Coffee Roaster
Kelly Abbott took the helm as Unleashed Coffee’s Owner, Roaster, and CEO in January of 2021. She is an SCA-trained Coffee Professional and certified Q-Grader. As a K-12 teacher for more than 20 years, she’s been a long time coffee enthusiast. A few years ago, Kelly made a career decision to transition from teaching to the coffee industry, and went from full-time teaching.
to learning the coffee trade and building up her roasting skills. The more she learned about the industry and the injustices borne by many farmers, the more she knew she wanted make a difference in the industry. Offering high quality, sustainable specialty grade coffee at a fair price to customers and the farmers who grow it is her passion.
On this edition of THE COCKTAIL GURU PODCAST, hosts Jonathan & Jeffrey Pogash deep-dive into coffee, discovering how an abiding passion for it prompted Kelly Abbott to leave behind 20 years of teaching K-12 students and seize the opportunity to …