CBB // Tell me what the NB2A is and what its mission and goal are.
KA // Our primary purpose is to improve the racial inequality that exists within craft beer. Specifically, this organization is geared toward driving additional brewery owners and increasing the number of Black individuals in head brewer or brewmaster capacities. That’s what we’re going to benchmark our performance and our behaviors against.
But we also want to make sure that we serve as a clearinghouse for channeling resources, so that if there’s any business [that wants to support Black brewers], we provide a platform and a pathway to infuse that into the Black brewing community. Right now, you would have to probably go to all 88 Black brewers and say, “Hey, I want to help.” But your size, scope, and ability to help may make it difficult to do so. We can be that clearinghouse of resources.