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Meet Amy Coronado

Amy Coronado is the Senior Chocolate Engineer at Cocoa Press. She is a Materials Science Engineering graduate from Carnegie Mellon University who specializes in chocolate production and 3D printing...

Meet Arcelia Gallardo

Arcelia Gallardo: I am owner and chocolate maker of Mission Chocolate based in São Paulo Brazil. I have been in the chocolate industry for 18 years, I teach chocolate making classes and I have a re...

Meet The Presenter - Max Makowski

Max Makowski's relationship with cocoa started at birth.  His family owned a tiny plantation where as a young boy he would spend considerable time.  As an adult his attention turned initially towar...

Meet The Presenter - Dr. Kristy Leissle

As a part of our Empowering Chocopreneurs series we are excited to present Dr. Kristy Leissle.  Dr. Kristy Leissle is a scholar of cocoa and chocolate. Since 2004, she has researched and written a...

Meet the Presenter Mayari Castellanos

Mayari Castellanos is a graduate archaeologist at the University of the Americas, Mexico with a postgraduate degree in ceramic restoration and conservation. She is an associate researcher at INAH M...

Meet the Presenter - Dr. Darin Sukha

CocoaTown's next webinar in the Empowering Chocopreneurs© is "Post-harvest Processing and Its Effects on Cocoa Bean Quality" webinar in collaboration with Cocoa Research Center in Trinidad, present...

Meet the Presenter - Chef Wayne Cezair

A quintessential exponent of the medicinal value of food, he soon discovered the hidden potential of the cocoa plant and began investigating the other properties of the cocoa fruit that are often o...

Meet the Panelist Reyna Flores

Meet The Panelist Reyna Flores Our next webinar on "Empowering Chocopreneurs©" webinar series is a panel discussion on the effects of recipe and process on equipment. We, at CocoaTown, have assembl...

Meet The Panelist Jose Arturo Maldonado

Born and raised in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Jose Arturo Maldonado of SaQua Chocolate got into the cocoa world in 2013 when he was doing financial research, comparing productivity and profitability betwe...

Meet the Panelist Kimberly Addison

We have assembled a group of accomplished chocolate makers from around the world to share a panel discussion about the effects of recipe and process on equipment for the next in the Empowering Choc...