OUR STORY

Anastasia and Katie's Coffee Shop & Cafe opened in December of 2019 and was immediately  embraced by our employees and our community. It was started to create a place where people with and without disabilities can work in an inclusive and supportive environment. Employees receive training, onsite supports and a paycheck, while giving back to the community. Anastasia and Katie’s Coffee Shop & Cafe serves good, strong coffee, assorted non-coffee drinks, breakfast, lunch and baked goods. The coffee shop is an employment program of the nonprofit Mi Work Matters.

Through the coffee shop and Mi Work Matters' Employment Ambassadors advocacy program we are starting the conversation about what it might look like for businesses to hire somebody with a disability. The coffee shop was named after the daughters of 2 of the nonprofit’s cofounders. Anastasia and Katie are both teen girls and rockin’ an extra chromosome.