There are a few things that describe me the best: my name (Camila), the city where I live in (Santiago, Chile), my job (a journalist) and my belief in gender equality and the need to create and highlight more and more spaces for women.
When I first started as a Google Local Guide, I did so as a way to share cool spots around my city and the places I visited, to try to help people the most from their experiences.
Equally important I’ve found it to provide useful and updated information regarding accessibility, times and services provided.
As a coffee enthusiast, I try to share the best specialty coffee shops I’ve enjoyed. But it wasn’t until recently that my love of drinking coffee evolved in a love of preparing coffee. That’s when I realized that the world of specialty coffee tends to be a male dominated one, for little space for women in coffee.
That’s why the discovery of the organization “Mujeres del Café”, roughly translated as “Women in Coffee”, was such a great news. They are formed by different specialty coffee shops around the city where women play an important role: be it as owner or baristas. They even have a “passport” that gets stamped if you visit each of the nine stores that are part of the initiative!
You can view these shops on a list I put together with the same name.
For the future, I’d like to extend this initiative into other fields that are mostly male dominated, such as art, gastronomy and even maybe create a list with street names that pay homage to the important women of our history!