Interview by Ritika Kumbharkar A simple class project about food security led Malia Bachesta to toward a career in raising awareness around the need for food security. Malia Bachesta graduated from Northeastern in December 2015 with a degree in Communications Studies and minors in International Affairs and Social Entrepreneurship. Malia Read more…
If you are one of the millions of people who drink coffee every morning, consider drinking Green Mountain Coffee, or using one of their Keurig machines. Here’s one reason why.
I was walking up a steep hill in 100 degree heat in Northern Nicaragua earlier this month, with 25 of our social enterprise students, as part of our senior capstone class. We were in the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, and in one of its poorest regions, when we came upon a sign saying that Green Mountain Coffee, through its corporate social responsibility program, had supported a poor smallholder farmer cooperative with community investments.