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Speed Rack Academy

A digital series of Speed Rack, spotlighting the organization’s past competitors via donation-based Zoom classes for a cause.

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Women & Ownership / Owning It, But Not Literally

with Andrea Tateosian

Drea began her bartending career in DC at the (now shuttered) acclaimed U Street speakeasy The Gibson while applying for jobs in finance. Before the pandemic was lead bartender at the award winning new hotel bar from London-based Mr Lyan, Silver Lyan. She currently works part time as assistant editor for The Blend, an online bartending resource by Beam Suntory, and eagerly awaits the day she can step back behind the bar. Drea's approach to bartending is warm, accommodating, and light-hearted. Outside of work Drea enjoys reading, feigning indignation, enthusiastic karaoke, and playing with her tornado-pup Paco.

Creating Equitable Spaces: The Power Of Solidarity

with Mary Palac

Mary Palac was born in the Philippines and raised in the Bay Area, she spent the last decade tending bar in San Jose, Calif, most recently serving drinks with purpose and grace in her residency at Paper Plane. Mary speaks with conviction in the interest of making the industry a better and safer place for women and minorities to work, and is a founding member and current president of the Silicon Valley chapter of the United States Bartenders Guild.