2024 Equal Exchange Summit
June 21, 2024 at Wheaton College in Norton, MA
Let’s reconnect as a community! The annual Equal Exchange Summit is a powerful gathering that brings together all stakeholders in our alternative trade network. For nearly four decades, we’ve been working together to build an alternative trade model that brings coffee, chocolate, tea, bananas, and other fairly traded goods from democratically organized small farmer co-ops in the global south to citizen-consumers in the north through Equal Exchange’s worker-owned cooperative.
Join us for a fun and informative gathering of all parts of our supply chain as we continue to advance our solidarity network and mission in an ever-consolidating food system that so badly needs alternatives like ours.
To register fill out the form below
or email organizing@equalexchange.coop
2024 Schedule of Events
Thursday, June 20
Welcome dinner (optional)
Friday, June 21
Breakfast
Keynote Address
Workshops: Session 1
Lunch
Workshops: Session 2
Citizen-Consumer Board Election
Dinner and Party!
Saturday, June 22
Breakfast (optional)
Roaster Tour at Equal Exchange HQ (optional)
Overnight accommodation will be provided for anyone wishing to stay on campus Thursday or Friday night.
There is no charge for the event this year.
Keynote Speakers
Jonathan Rosenthal has been working since he was a teenager to convert the destructive aspects of oppressive organizations and systems into a people’s economy honoring mother earth. That journey has included co-founding Equal Exchange and Oke USA and consulting and leading organizations working to create a more just world. He is currently the interim executive director at Enroot in Cambridge, MA and an active advisor to the Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity and The Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective. He is married, has 2 adult daughters, and lives in Watertown, MA.
Michael Rozyne is the founder of Red Tomato, a regional food hub based in Providence, RI, that sources from 40 mid-sized fruit and vegetable farms and distributes primarily to supermarkets, as well as institutions such as schools, hospitals, and food banks. Red Tomato’s signature program is EcoCertified™, verifying local and sustainably-grown apples and peaches. He is the manager of the Farming & Food Narrative Project, a social science research project aimed at effective communications with a public audience. In 1986, Rozyne co-founded the fair trade food company Equal Exchange, a worker-owned cooperative.
More details will be added to this page as they are announced.
Questions? Email Danielle and Frankie at organizing@equalexchange.coop or call (774) 776-7366.