Scott unkefer - ceo / founder

I had just moved to Medellin, Colombia in 2011. I would, about every morning, go to my local “Juan Valdez” brand coffee shop and notice these single serves of “Panela” ‘endulzante’. Spanish for ‘sweetener’.

I wrote it off as just another artificial sweetener but my curiosity got the best of me. I asked the barista “What is this Panela stuff?”. They replied “It’s sugar!”. Alright I’ll give it a try. I opened a sachet of this fluffy golden powder.

It wasn’t a crystal or hard like a rock like refined or turbinado sugars. I put it in my cappuccino and that was the famed “ Aha! ” moment. It made for the best cappuccino I had ever had.

Angélica (angie) Sánchez - Director of Operations

Graduated in Pshychology I´ve spent my career working on HR at different levels, from recruiting and hiring, to occupational health and walfare activities, I’ve done everything in HR related, so I wanted to make a change and one day I met Scott and we clicked, I started managing some small parts of the operations now we can say we are a great team and I am his right hand.

I enjoy working at Just Panela, even being far from my career pathway <3

Trish Keatings - BLOGGER / WRITTER

Trish Keatings began her freelancing career in the years following her graduation from a Master of Arts program at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. While she owes much of her technical skill as a writer to her multifaceted academic career, her expertise in the health and wellness niche is the result of both lived experience and endless hours of in-depth training and research. Particularly interested in bringing the gifts of other cultures and continents to Western audiences, her enthusiasm for panela is the result of a belief in the need for balance in all areas of life – dietary and otherwise.

Learn more about Trish here.