“For refugees, new Denver coffee shop brimming with optimism”
October 30, 2011
By Penny Parker (thanks for shaing this story, Penny!)
Denver Post Columnist
Denver Post Columnist
Keshav Nepal, right, and Solomon Wolday hone their barista skills at Emily’s Coffee. (Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post)
Barista-in-training Chuda Khanal locks his eyes on the nonfat decaf latte he’s constructing while trainer Alisa Melville hovers.
“I’m trying to get them to do latte art,” Melville said about the three students behind the counter at Emily’s Coffee, a new espresso shop at 1261 Glenarm Place created by the Language Learning Center of Emily Griffith Technical College. The three students, Bhutan refugees who were relocated to the United States from camps in Nepal, took a one-month course to learn job skills and U.S. workforce orientation.
