Drafters’ Story
I have lived and worked in Northeastern Thailand since 2003, in solidarity with agricultural communities and social justice organizers. I learned about tea as an educator at a tea house in San Francisco in 2006. Returning to Thailand, I worked with friends to open วงน้ำชา (“Circle of Tea”), a cooperatively run tea house and art education center in Khon Kaen, Thailand.
I met Hooy and her family in Chiang Rai Province in 2015 and am proud to import and share their specialty tea, which is grown without pesticides and harvested by hand from centuries-old tea trees.
- Brighid O’Keane, founder & owner
Why Drafters?
Drafters Tea Co. is inspired by my mom, Carole Morton O’Keane, who was the first woman drafter hired by Eastman Kodak Company. Kodak changed the title from “draftsman” to “drafter” as a result, and she went on to draw cameras, lenses, and the redesign of the Kodak logo in the 1970s.
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