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Café Cà Phê in Kansas City

A Reflection on AAPICONIC, the 2023 Kansas City AAPI Festival

Café Cà Phê is Kansas City’s first and only Vietnamese coffeeshop. The goal has always been to create a cultural hub in Kansas City for marginalized communities, especially AAPI folks. On May 20, 2023, all the work we’ve put in thus far—all the spilled milk, late nights, and many many syrup stains—culminated in an outpouring of love for the Kansas City AAPI Community. AAPICONIC: The 2023 Kansas City AAPI Festival.

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A Word From Jack & the Bean

Jack & the Bean is a group of cool friends who serve up hot coffee and other great drinks and opportunity for adults with intellectual disabilities in Huntington, West Virginia. Pivoting with the pandemic, I returned to the US in 2021 to regroup and saw a gap in a growing yet still underserved coffee community.

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