Industry, nonprofit and academic professionals sharing knowledge for recovery of the cocoa sector. Our deepest gratitude to our advisory board for their time and professional expertise.
Matt Brauner -- Brauner International, Board Member, CMAA -- Cocoa Merchants Association of America Mark Guiltinan -- J. Franklin Styer Professor of Horticultural Botany and Professor of Plant Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University
Greg Hanson -- President, Farmer Courses LLC., and Emeritus Professor of Farm Finance and Production, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State University.
Stanley Kuehn -- International Development Consultant at Small Farmer International; Regional Director for Latin America & Caribbean and Senior Technical Advisor, NCBA CLUSA International; and Director, El Salvador USDA NCBA CLUSA Coffee Stabilization Project
Siela Maximova -- Research Professor of Plant Biotechnology, Penn State Department of Plant Science, Guiltinan-Maximova Lab.
Pablo Ramirez -- Chief of Party, Partners of the Americas, Colombian Cacao & Complementary Crops for Development (C4D) Program.
Project Coordinators
United States: Jennifer Chesworth, Sombra Buena Coffee & Fine Chocolate
Jennifer Chesworth -- Sombra Buena founder, has a background in fair trade and organic coffee, having designed courses and trained hundreds of farmers in specialty coffee quality control and organic certification, in Honduras and elsewhere in Latin America. She is based in Centre County, Pennsylvania.
Honduras: Jorge Betancourt, Sombra Buena Coffee & Fine Chocolate
Jorge Betancourt -- Sombra Buena co-founder, has decades of experience in project management and administration, as former Director of Natural Resources Division, Peace Corps Honduras; former Director of AMUPROLAGO the Association of Municipalities of Lago de Yojoa; and former administrator for the Biodiversity Fund in Honduras. Jorge is based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.