My name is Carina Choche Vasquez and I am the executive director of Cojolya. This is the story of how I started working at Cojolya and how I fell in love with my job.

I originally wrote this post in 2018 and I have been content with how it has held up over the years. Since then, it has made some (albeit small) rounds on the internet, and resonanted with other individuals in the Latin American fair trade space. It seems only right to share this with you all as well as part of the launch of this new platform. The opinion and information I express here has a lot to do with what motivated me to immediately say "yes" when Brooke originally came to me with the idea for Amano. I hope the information here will be helpful! --Amano Co-founder, Elena Laswick Nav...

Amano Marketplace was born of these crazy, unprecedented times and truly believes that, for now, we are stronger apart.