Obsessed with
the craft.
Coffee got its hooks in me when I was a teenager. Not drinking it — making it. I wanted to figure out why one cup tasted different from the next. Grind size, water temp, how you moved the pitcher. I kept changing things to see what happened.
Growing up in Allison Park, PA, I had no idea it would turn into anything. It was just this thing I kept coming back to, tweaking variables, obsessing over tiny differences. Most people my age were just drinking coffee. I was trying to understand it.
I'm at the University of Maryland now. Stratus is a mobile cart I bring to events on campus — student org meetings, open houses, conferences, the occasional fire station drill. Lattes, matcha, chai, hot chocolate, all made to order. It started as the thing I loved doing. It turned into something bigger than that, which I wasn't expecting.
The goal is still just: show up, make it good.
