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Rob Everts

First name: Rob
Last name: Everts
Organization: Equal Exchange
Interests: Rob Everts joined Equal Exchange in 1997 and since 1999 has shared leadership responsibilities with EE co-founder Rink Dickinson. In the 1970’s Rob worked with the United Farm Workers under Cesar Chavez. In the 1980’s he was an organizer for the grassroots political organization Neighbor to Neighbor which worked to end the atrocities and reform U.S. policies in Central America. In the immediate aftermath of the signing of the peace accords in El Salvador in 1992, Neighbor to Neighbor, Equal Exchange and Oxfam America collaborated to launch EE’s first coffee from that country, Café Salvador. After a receiving a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School and a 15 month stint with UNICEF in Costa Rica, Rob returned to the U.S. to join Equal Exchange full time.