Ejo Heza is an all-women’s group within the larger Kopakama cooperative. Kopakama was founded after the Rwandan genocide to help rebuild community and industry, and Ejo Heza was created to provide greater opportunities for equity and growth for women. Its name translates to “brighter tomorrow.”

The cooperative has become a leader in social and gender equality, creating opportunities and reinvesting in its community while producing exceptional coffees. Nate Hamood, our President and Director of Coffee, began working with Ruth Ann Church of Artisan Coffee Imports to source this coffee about eight years before this release.

Alongside other roasters, we participated in an initiative paying additional premiums to support community programs and infrastructure. Each roaster’s contribution combined into a larger impact at origin.

This Bourbon lot was depulped with a disk depulper, wet-fermented for 12–18 hours, then soaked in a separate tank for 16–24 hours before sun-drying on raised beds. The cup offered plum, apricot, and chamomile, with a syrupy sweetness and clean, juicy character.