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What started as an impossible dream-to build a caf that employs women recovering from prostitution and addiction-is helping to fuel an astonishing movement to bring freedom and fair wages to women producers worldwide where tea and trafficking are linked by oppression and the opiate wars. Becca Stevens started the Thistle Stop Caf to empower women survivors. But when she discovered a connection between caf workers and tea laborers overseas, she embarked on a global mission called Shared Trade to increase the value of women survivors and producers across the globe. As she recounts the victories and unexpected challenges of building the caf, Becca also sweeps the reader into the world of tea, where timeless rituals transport to an era of beauty and the challenging truths about teas darker, more violent history.



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Becca Stevens

Becca Stevens is many things...an author, speaker, social entrepreneur, founder and president of Thistle Farms, the largest social enterprise in the US run by survivors. She has been featured in the New York Times, on ABC World News, NPR, PBS, and CNN. In 2011, the White House named Becca a "Champion of Change," and she was selected as a 2016 "CNN Hero." Recently, she was featured in the PBS documentary, "A Path Appears," named Humanitarian of the Year by the Small Business Council of America as well as the TJ Martell Foundation, inducted into the Tennessee Women's Hall of Fame and was conferred an honorary doctorate by Sewanee: The University of the South. Her most recent book, "Love Heals," with publisher Thomas Nelson will be released in the Fall of 2017.



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