rachel h.

Rachel H. | Baker/Barista

One More Cup

Years of Industry Service: 1.5

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Rachel is a self-taught baker. She has always enjoyed it, but during college, she really upped her skills while baking with friends with whom she created a project called Cookie Bombs. They made baking fun and outrageous, surprising friends with their baked goods and their ideas. Rachel's masterpiece included building a Trojan horse filled with sweet goodies and sneaking into a friend's house to deliver them. Another project, named Operation Dessert Storm, involved rewriting a Donald Rumsfeld speech about the gulf war into a manifesto about baking.

Rachel has participated in a year-long internship at Wren Song, an 80-acre, organic, demonstration farm  in Northeast Missouri. Wren Song is electricity-free and all the machines are human-powered. Now Rachel helps run a smaller half-acre farm in Midtown with her neighbors. She also volunteers at two other community gardens and works at a greenhouse part-time. 

Rachel graduated in 2008 but is going back to school to study law. 

  Make KC Better » Improve public transportation. 

 Add bike lanes. 

natalie w.

Natalie W. | Barista

One More Cup

Years of Industry Service: 5

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Natalie is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, her parents have come to Kansas City by way of Vancouver and Montreal and they visit family back home several times a year. "My parents both say eh all the time." Before Natalie got into the coffee business she was making smoothies at the Juice Stop close to her high school. "It was run by really fun people, friends stopped by all the time and my friends worked there too." 

Natalie is not one to sit around counting coffee beans in her spare time, she has three jobs in three different industries: food and service, skincare, and photography. Photography is something she does as part of her work, but it's also something she enjoys along with playing the piano and learning the guitar. Natalie recently shot her first wedding. She said it was a difficult and long day; she was the only photographer and had to run back and forth a lot trying to capture every moment for the bride and groom. "It turned out to be a beautiful shoot and a beautiful wedding." You can see more of her gorgeous work here.

  Make KC Better » Public Transportation...subway, train, buses, 

 anything besides expensive taxis. 

stacy n.

 

Stacy N. | Owner

One More Cup

Years of Industry Service: 2

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Before Stacy got into the coffee business with her husband and business partner, Jeremy, she spent most of her career in retail. Now she's the owner of a cute, neighborhood coffee shop in Waldo with a staff she loves. "We have found excellent people. They allow us to have time with our kids. They're trustworthy. They get along with each other. We love our staff." Being the boss isn't easy and she's learned "you have to be like water. You have to be ready to flow, just like with kids."

A Kansas City Art Institute graduate and fiber artist, Stacy now mainly works on mixed media drawings and photography in her limited free time. She also likes reading, gardening and cooking, but with two kids and her shop, what she really wants to do with her free time is nothing. Despite the crazy busy life, Stacy is thankful that people have embraced One More Cup. "We love Kansas City and this is our love letter to it."

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Stacy was photographed in her booth at the Waldo's Farmer Market.

  Make KC Better » Somehow break down geographical barriers that are keeping people separate. We should care about other parts of the city, care about each other, and care about how people are doing.