Cafe Zamora

Portland’s Cafe Culture Is Changing. These Coffee Businesses Call It a New Wave. | Eater Portland

"At his Southeast Portland cafe, Cafe Zamora, I see owner Hector Mejía Zamora—Guatemalan-born and -raised—working directly with beans and with farmers from his home country (he also owns a farm there) to produce coffee for his shop; he runs an export business alongside the cafe and is focused on politically conscious efforts to reduce coffee’s environmental harm, even drafting a proposed bill to levy an environmental tax on coffee companies with more than $1 million in sales while involving local activists and Guatemalan workers to shift power and keep profit inside producing communities." - Paolo Bicchieri