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About the Grower:

Marilec Sevilla’s family was originally a grain-producing familyfrom the La Calera community in the PalacaguinaMunicipality, Department of Madriz, Nicaragua. When shewas eight years old, she used to visit the coffee mills with hermother, and during her high school years, she worked part timesorting coffee to be able to pay for her clothes andschool supplies.
In 2000, a company called PRODECOOP arrived in her town,and her father managed to position himself as a securityguard there; and she also got a position in the sortingdepartment.During that period, Marilec met the manager and taster ofPRODECOOP, Eduardo Videa, and he was the first person tointroduce Marilec to coffee tasting; and her first teacher. Itwas through him that Marelic developed a passion for coffee.
In 2003 she started a new job at VOLCAFIC in Nicaragua as aQuality control assistant. Then, in 2004, she emigrated toChiapas, Mexico, to work as the Q.C. Manager at COMPRASS.A., where she worked with seven organizations of smallproducers of organic coffee and fair trade, where she spentsix years.
In 2010, she went back to Nicaragua to work for a private company, Peraltacoffees S.A, as a Q.C. Manager and Responsible for Certifications.
In 2019, Marilec founded her company, y Marilec Coffee, with the mission of providing a quality service in the commercialization of coffee from small unionized and individual producers from the different producing regions of Nicaragua. Her goal is to professionalize long-term relationships with the market, offering and guaranteeing a quality product in exchange for better income/fair prices toimprove the quality of life of coffee-producing.
Besides running Marilec Coffee, Marilec is also a small coffee producer. She, and her husband Alex, who is also a cupper, own two plots of coffee in Los Planes Dipilto N.S, where they also have a cupping lab and a small office where clients and producers can reach out to them.