Our training is free to all participants and is based on barista standards set by the Specialty Coffee Association.
Our Barista Training Program teaches refugees & asylum seekers the fundamentals of brewing coffee, using an espresso machine, providing customer service, and navigating the American workplace.
Since our first cohort in 2016, we have trained over 350 barista graduates from 41 different countries.
Our training program is free. We are able to offer it at no cost thanks to generous grants from the Starbucks Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Wells Fargo Foundation, James Irvine Foundation, First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, and Regeneration Church.
After completing the training program, graduates embark on a rigorous job search through our employment program.
1951 Coffee Company, founded in 2015, is a non-profit specialty coffee organization that promotes the well-being of the refugee community in the United States by providing job training and employment to refugees, asylees, and special immigrant visa holders while educating the surrounding community about refugee life and issues.
Our name is derived from the UNHCR’s 1951 Refugee Convention which first defined and set forth guidelines for the protection of refugees. In the spirit of this convention, 1951 Coffee works with refugees to help them overcome the unique barriers they face in seeking and sustaining employment.
The Challenge
Refugees and asylees face challenges in seeking, attaining, and sustaining employment while adapting to their new homes. With minimal training, cultural orientation, and often limited English skills, it is difficult to find employment in a supportive environment. Due to the burdensome financial realities of resettling in the U.S., it is imperative that refugees and asylees secure employment that provides a living wage quickly.
Our Solution
Through our Barista Training Program, employment at our cafe, and ongoing job placement support, we break the barriers refugees and asylees face in pursuing the financial stability needed to have self-determination. Program participants learn more than just how to make quality coffee. They learn vocational English skills, customer service standards, U.S. workplace expectations, and responsibilities, in addition to receiving ongoing support as they embark on their new career path.
This class lead by our Coffee Trainer will demonstrate to you the proper brewing techniques of different brewing devices and allow you to taste the difference. Learn about coffee to water ratios, water temps, brew times and grind size to get the best from your brewer.
Yes, you will get to pull your own shots, steam your milk into microfoam and make your own favorite specialty drink.
By the end of our time together, you will have clarity on the fundamentals of brewing espresso, how to steam milk and achieve latte art ready milk, and how to make perfectly tasty coffee beverages.
Our class will teach you the basic's of coffee roasting.
We try to set a standard of quality coffee with friendly service in the District for all customers who walk in our doors.
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