About Umeko Motoyoshi

Umeko Motoyoshi is an award-winning coffee writer, educator, and activist. Through their work across platforms, they seek to make coffee accessible, empowering and welcoming for people of all identities.

A licensed Q-Grader with fourteen years of experience, Umeko is the founder of Umeshiso.com, an online coffee supply shop specializing in rainbow cupping spoons. They run the Instagram platform @umeshiso_, which focuses on coffee through a social justice lens. They also founded coffee sustainability platform @wastingcoffee and authored the book Not Wasting Coffee. 

Currently Umeko spends their time consulting on social media for coffee businesses, writing coffee reviews, creating coffee education content, and shipping rainbow cupping spoons.

You can follow Umeko's writing here on the Umeshiso Blog!

 

Photo Credit: Noah Goodman