About Us: The Working Group
Ildi Revi, M.Ad.Ed., CPT, PCQI, Q Instructor
Ildi Revi, M.Ad.Ed., CPT, PCQI, Q Instructor
Ildi Revi, M.Ad.Ed., CPT, PCQI, Q Instructor
Ildi Revi is the author of The Coffee Guide to Better Health and is Chief Learning Officer with Purity Coffee, Inc. Ildi lived and worked on a coffee farm in Zimbabwe's Vumba mountain range for 9 years, has been a coffee roaster since 1999 and owned a retail roastery for 12 years. With a master's degree in adult workplace learning, Ildi designed and developed coffee education programs in roasting, tasting, preparation and green coffee buying for the Specialty Coffee Association as their Education Manager from 2010-2016. She was the main architect of the certificate programs of the Specialty Coffee Association of America before it merged with the European association to become the SCA. As a Certified Performance Technologist, she was Director of Performance at Ally Coffee for 6 years. She developed Ally Coffee's employee learning programs and, as the staff PCQI, she designed the food safety system for FDA compliance and taught courses in coffee-specific FSMA, FSVP and market dynamics for staff and clients.In addition, since 2018 she has been a Q Arabica Instructor (now is "evolved" licensed), Q Grader, Lecturer and Processing Generalist.At Purity Coffee she is responsible for researching, gathering and disseminating information about coffee's interaction with and impact on health and the environment. This includes lab testing and cupping coffees, writing literature reviews and blog posts, designing learning programs for staff and customers, and collaborating with farming, production, the coffee industry and scientific partners.Her departments at Purity are Research & Development and Learning. She has traveled extensively to coffee farms in Colombia, Brazil, Nicaragua, Honduras and Zimbabwe and has been leading the research projects in biochar for the Purity Cool Farm initiative.
Jeremy Ravar, Evolved Q Grader, PCQI
Ildi Revi, M.Ad.Ed., CPT, PCQI, Q Instructor
Ildi Revi, M.Ad.Ed., CPT, PCQI, Q Instructor
Jeremy (Behne) Rävar is a distinguished coffee professional of 13-years and was instrumental as an editor of The Coffee Guide to Better Health, creating graphics and charts while copy editing the book. He is an SCA Evolved Cupper and holds PCQI certification, with a refined palate established through extensive work with award-winning coffees.
Jeremy's career began at Starbucks as Barista Trainer and Coffee Master —early in his career and later after gaining specialty coffee experience in cafes and roasting. This has provided valuable insights into systematic education and large-scale operations which have informed his specialty coffee work.
His career flourished through leadership positions as Manager and Trainer for Greenstreet Coffee Company, Director of Training and Director of Coffee at Larry's Coffee, and most recently as Director of Coffee at a Portland, Maine roastery which achieved Roast Magazine's Roaster of the Year in 2020, won a Good Food Award and multiple Golden Bean Awards under his direction.
He has spoken at Coffee Fest New York and New England Coffee Fest. As a PCQI, his food safety expertise ensures quality integration from bean to cup while his innovative development continues pushing specialty coffee boundaries.
His coffee origin relationships span Nicaragua, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, and Rwanda. In Rwanda he worked closely with Rwandan farmers to improve processing procedures, perfecting the anaerobic fermentation processes used on their farms.
Advisory Board Members
Trish Rothgeb
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Trish Rothgeb is a pioneering leader in the specialty coffee industry with more than three decades of experience as a roaster, educator, and entrepreneur. She is the owner, CEO, director of coffee, and roastmaster at Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters in San Francisco, where she oversees sourcing, roasting, and quality while championing sustainability and equity.
Trish is internationally recognized as the coiner of the term “Third Wave Coffee” to describe the movement that treats coffee as a craft and celebrates nuance in every cup. As former Director of Q and Educational Programs at the Coffee Quality Institute, she helped build the Q certification system that established global standards for specialty coffee quality. The program, now administered by the Specialty Coffee Association, remains the benchmark for grading, cupping, and calibration worldwide. Over the years, Trish has trained thousands of professionals and continues to lead calibrations and professional development for Q Instructors through global communities of practice.
A licensed Q Grader and Q Trainer, Trish was among the first Americans to hold the certification and in 2023 earned the Q Robusta Grader credential in Bangkok. She has conducted courses and evaluations across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and is a well-known speaker at major coffee events worldwide. Her leadership roles include service on the SCAA Roasters Guild Executive Council, the World Barista Championship Board of Directors, and as a co-founder of the Barista Guild of America. In 2019, she was named a James Beard Foundation Women in Entrepreneurial Leadership Fellow.
Trish also authors Good Coffee With Trish Rothgeb, a Substack newsletter where she shares insights on coffee quality and culture. Her work and commentary have appeared in outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Fresh Cup, Sprudge, KQED, and in 2025 she was featured in the Wall Street Journal discussing how she adapts her coffee kit when traveling to cities with rich coffee cultures. She is the creative force and co‑host of The Shift, a three‑episode YouTube talk‑show series launched in 2025 (with co‑host Jay Lijewski), bringing together coffee leaders in candid discussions about coffee culture and community.
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