CiderCon 2024 is correct across the nook, and simply forward of this industry-leading convention and gathering (held this 12 months in Portland, OR), the American Cider Affiliation (ACA) has introduced the recipients of the 2024 Cider is for Everybody Scholarship. The scholarship, which was conceived of by the ACA’s Antiracism, Fairness and Inclusion Committee, is supposed to “convey people from traditionally marginalized populations inside the beverage {industry} to CiderCon to extend the accessibility of cider schooling and catalyze the careers and ownership-pathways of those burgeoning cider professionals.”
“This scholarship is certainly one of our greatest instruments for fostering a extra numerous cider {industry},” says Michelle McGrath, CEO of the ACA. “The scholarship must work in lock step with our efforts to create a extra inclusive {industry} in order that, as now we have extra numerous CiderCon attendees, they’re surrounded by a welcoming neighborhood and equitable surroundings.”
That is the third 12 months that the Cider is for Everybody scholarship has been supplied, and there have been 4 instances the variety of purposes than within the earlier two years mixed. Every scholarship consists of registration, journey and lodging to attend CiderCon 2024, in addition to a 12 months of ACA membership and examine supplies and waived examination charges to pursue recognition by way of the Licensed Cider Skilled and Licensed Pommelier™ schooling and certification program supplied by the ACA. The ten (!) recipients this 12 months have been made potential with assist from: Yonder Cider, Seattle Cider Co, 9 Pin Ciderworks, 2 Cities Ciderhouse, Alma Cider, the Nice Little Field Firm, John’s Market, Beer Kulture and Lifting Lucy.
The recipients are:
Recipients are Genevieve Regalado (Benny Boy Brewing), Robert Freeman (EsoTerra Ciderworks), Britt Evans, Javier Naranjo (Oklawaha Brewing Firm), Tasmine Fraser (Woman with a Cider Assessment, Cider Canada), Rae Adams (Wehrloom Honey & Meadery), Emily Ptasinski (Republic of Cider), William Santiago (Crafted Concoctions), Jonathan Osei (Artisanal Brewing Ventures), and José Sabas (Grape Ape). Head to the ACA’s latest weblog submit for full bios of all these people.
The Cider is for Everybody scholarship can have an impact that lasts lengthy after CiderCon wraps up for the 12 months.
“There’s a stark distinction between being invited to an occasion and truly belonging in an area. The American Cider Affiliation is doing the troublesome and significant work of constructing a tradition inside the group and the {industry} at-large that fosters true belonging by difficult itself to thoughtfully and punctiliously evolve and broaden,” says ACA Scholarship Coordinator Olivia Pener, a recipient of the scholarship in 2023. “The speedy progress and improvement of this scholarship program is each a testomony to that thoughtfulness and indicative of this system’s significance. Its transformative influence on the lives of not simply the people who obtain it, but in addition the {industry} professionals who work together with recipients, spans far past the CiderCon® expertise. This program, its members, its sponsors, and its supporters collectively display that cider is, certainly, for everybody.”
