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Maumee Valley Country Day School hosted a seminar on social entrepreneurship. Lucas Isaza, a senior at Maumee Valley Country Day School, worked to organize a unique group of speakers on different ways to use business and business practices to generate a social impact at the community, city, or national level.

Maria Paula Moreno, who is the International Director for Juan Valdez Cafe in Colombia spoke at the conference. Juan Valdez is a multinational coffeehouse chain whose coffee comes from Colombia primarily. The representative discussed the impacts (socially and economically) that the company has had on the producers of its coffee and how it plans to establish a long-term future relationship their producers who are also shareholders.