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CONTR IB UT ORS 1 2 1 Tracy Allen is CEO of Brewed Behavior, a consultancy founded to offer comprehensive support to all segments of the coffee industry. He also currently serves as second vice president for the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA). As one of the original members of the U.S. Barista Championship (USBC) Committee and the first chair of the Rules and Regulations Committee for the World Barista Championship (WBC), Tracy has trained multiple national and regional barista champions and served as a judge and judges' trainer for the USBC and WBC. He is also an SCAA "supertaster," certified cupper, and Q-grader instructor. (Cashbox, p. 78) 2 3 4 5 Coffee has not only helped Joshua Boyt understand many cultures around the world, but has also helped him truly know himself. He has done most everything there is to do in the coffee industry, including 10-plus years in coffee sales and marketing, business, and brand development. In 2011, he opened Metronome Coffee in Tacoma, Wash. In 2012, he partnered with Victrola Coffee Roasters in Seattle as director of sales and marketing. Joshua is the past Northwest chair for the Barista Guild of America and currently serves on the editorial advisory boards for Barista Magazine and Coffee Universe. (Group Love, p. 60) 3 6 7 8 Scott Conary founded the acclaimed Open Eye Cafe, and Caffe Driade companies, and has over 18 years experience in the specialty-coffee industry. His background is in biochemistry, but his obsession with discovering and roasting phenomenal coffee transitioned into direct working relationships with farmers and producers through Carrboro Coffee Roasters. Along the way, Scott has worked as a barista, green-coffee buyer; roaster; Cup of Excellence judge; and World Barista Championship head judge and trainer, which has taken him to national and international competitions around the United States and the world, from Nicaragua to Japan. Scott is the current past chair of the SCAA's Competitions Committee, serves on the World Coffee Events (WCE) Instructional Design Committee, and has acted as head judge at WBC competitions for the last eight years, most recently in Melbourne, Australia. (Field Report: Rwanda, p. 34) 4 Anna Drozd was born in Minsk, Russia, and at the age of four she began nine years of dance study. She graduated from the Russian State Social University as a lawyer, though she has not worked in law for even a day, but succeeded as an economist instead. While working as a chief economist of one of the largest companies in Belarus, she met a talented photographer who 12 barista magazine inspired her to change her career at once; she left her work as an economist behind, and began taking pictures of men, butterflies, and other objects of interest. Being keen on taking journalistic photos, Anna was named "Photographer of the Year" by a national organization in 2009. She currently freelances for top magazines in Russia and Belarus. And all the money she makes as a photographer goes toward her other passion: travel. (Cover photo and photography in Asli Yaman: Roaster, Brewer, Boundary-Breaker, p. 54) 5 Emily McIntyre is a freelance writer who focuses on coffee culture, as well as one of the kick-ass team members at the LAB (creators of Caffeine Crawl). Originally from Kansas City, Mo., she currently resides in Orange County with her husband, Michael, a roaster and Q-grader, and her toddler, Eire, also a coffee lover. (Pull, p. 23) 6 Erin Meister is a coffee professional with a totally-not-at-all-secret double life as a writer and a journalist. (Worst. Clark. Kent. Ever.) When she's in her coffee cups, she's a regional representative for Counter Culture Coffee's Counter Intelligence education program. She also writes about coffee on the regular for Serious Eats (www.seriouseats. com), and has contributed editorial and/or written work to fine publications such as The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Time Out NY, and this gem you've got in your hot little hands. She can be reached at meister@justmeister.com. (Consistency: Why It's Essential, p. 72) 7 Like Submariner, Jack Pollock is at war with the surface world, and his unique illustrations bear eloquent witness to this constant struggle. He began his career at a tender age back in the late 1980s working for Dark Horse Comics. There, he created Devil Chef and still isn't sorry. After that auspicious debut, he's done illustrations and comics for dozens of lucky publishers like this one. Sorry, ladies, he's married! Sorry, dogs, he has a dog! (Illustrations for Consistency: Why It's Essential, p. 72) 8 Travis Riley is reviews editor at Garageland magazine and a U.K.-based art writer. Since accidentally moving in down the road from London's Kaffeine at the time of its opening in 2009, he has been a fanatical follower of the specialty-coffee industry. Nowadays when writing, Travis can usually be found propping up the bar at Colonna & Smalls in Bath, where he holds the honorary position of "coffee groupie," judging U.K. Barista Championship run-throughs, and doing a spot of editing for Maxwell ColonnaDashwood's blog. (Coffee+, p. 66)