Elizabeth Chai

Elizabeth Chai built her Graphic Design career as a coffeeshop dweller and coffee consumer. After a Design Director stint with Octane Coffee, her commitment to advancing the industry convinced her to focus her design, branding, illustration, and photography skills exclusively within Specialty Coffee. Her love of “Coffee Design” has resulted in extensive travel to see as many cafés around the world as she possibly can, for the design and development of a Coffee Travelers Journal. In 2015, Elizabeth traveled across the United States on a 3-week #CrossCountryCamperCoffeeCrawl, living in a Linea Mini-outfitted teardrop camper, visiting 35 different cafes between Atlanta and Portland. After heading up design departments at La Marzocco USA and MiiR, she has continued to dedicate her focus on coffee-related design and photography projects, working with clients such as Sprudge, Slayer Espresso, Wallflower Coffee, Swiss Water, Created Co, Mizuba Matcha, Eversys, and more. View her work at www.chai.coffee or @chaiamericano.

Committed to Diversity and Inclusion: Elizabeth Chai enriches our conference with her experience running a women owned business, and as an Asian American coffee professional.