🎙HERITAGE BREWS OPPORTUNITY: LUZ & HER

COLOMBIAN COFFEE ROOTS ☕

📅 Friday, September 18, 2026

🕖 7:00 PM ET

📻 WGXC 90.7 FM

💻 Listen live: https://www.wgxc.org/listen

🎧 This month RACE TALKS® celebrates five years of bringing listeners the VERY NECESSARY conversation on race and ethnicity—where no topic is taboo!

🗣 In recognition of Latino Heritage Month!

The lovely Luz Dary Niño, founder of Lumiere Café Colombiano, joins me for a warm, culturally rich journey from Boyacá, Colombia, to California—and into the family memories, immigrant experiences and entrepreneurial purpose held within a single cup of coffee.

Luz’s story begins with her grandmother slowly roasting green coffee beans as family gathered around the table. Those aromas and rituals traveled with Luz, eventually inspiring a specialty coffee business rooted in Colombian heritage, community connection and opportunity for farmers in remote regions of Colombia.

This conversation reaches far beyond the bean. Luz and Kimberly explore what it means to cross borders without surrendering identity; the differences between expressive Spanish storytelling and direct English communication; mental wellness and mindfulness; cultural stereotypes; mentorship; economic opportunity; and the importance of asking where coffee comes from, how it was produced and whose hands helped bring it to the cup.

A Spanish storytelling and direct English communication; mental wellness and mindfulness; cultural stereotypes; mentorship; economic opportunity; and the importance of asking where coffee comes from, how it was produced and whose hands helped bring it to the cup.

GUEST TALKER

Luz Dary Niño, Founder, Lumiere Café Colombiano

Luz is a Colombian entrepreneur and community advocate whose work connects specialty coffee with cultural preservation, family legacy and meaningful economic opportunity. Through Lumiere Café Colombiano, she shares the stories behind Colombian coffee while helping consumers understand the people, places and traditions responsible for every bean.

☕ What’s Brewing?

• Words of Wisdom: Reflections on continual growth, happiness and living with ease

• Colombian Roots: Luz’s memories of her grandmother, family gatherings and traditional coffee roasting

• The Immigrant Journey: Moving from Boyacá to California while maintaining language, culture and identity

• Coffee and Mindfulness: Turning a familiar drink into a moment for presence, reflection and connection

• Coffee Master Class: Whole beans, growing regions, altitude, flavor, quality and accountability

• Heritage-Driven Entrepreneurship: Using cultural memory to build community and create opportunity

• DYK: A playful surprise challenge for Luz—and listeners can play along

🎶 THE COLOMBIAN SOUND THREAD

Music carries listeners through Colombia’s nostalgia, wit, tradition and contemporary energy:

• Totó la Momposina — “El Pescador”

• Garzón y Collazos — “Pueblito Viejo,” composed by José A. Morales

• Jorge Velosa — “La Cucharita”

• Heredero — “Pero Te Quiero”.

LISTEN: Friday, September 18th at 7:00 PM ET on WGXC 90.7 FM or stream live at wgxc.org/listen.

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EXPLORE: Hear past broadcasts in the WGXC/Wave Farm Archives.

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Garrett Roche – Podcaster of The Roche Solid Truth & production partner of Race Talks®, joins our conversation roundtable. Garrett brings lift, clarity, and that intentional spark we all need to be positive in the midst of chaos called AMERICA today.