Melissa Green (she/her) celebrates pride with every cup of coffee.
The founder and CEO of Rise Above Coffee, Melissa is a dedicated coffee supplier who intentionally supports the LGBTQ+ community. Her #coffeewithacause mission focuses on spotlighting a new LGBTQ-focused nonprofit each month, with a percentage of that month’s proceeds going directly to the organization.
The LGBTQ+ community is filled with pockets of diversity, intersectionality and varying identities while being packed with some of the most inspiring people, despite what they may go through on a daily basis. This Pride Month, we want to take a moment to recognize the community for all that they do by highlighting a few LGBTQ+ small businesses. Although Pride gives welcomed visibility to the queer and trans community, it’s important that we come together every day. So, this Pride Month and beyond, be sure to shop and support LGBTQ+ brands and businesses. #LGBTQOwned
It is always such a pleasure to speak to Melissa Green, founder and owner of Southern, Sweet & Sassy Coffee. She speaks my love language: coffee.
— Rachel Carpenter
“I’m a huge coffee drinker,” she said. “Especially in the Navy, it was our break time. We’d go to the aft of the ship and have our break drinking coffee and talking. It’s kind of the only way you can have a break.”
— Melissa Green, Founder & CEO
“It was pretty difficult to start a business, at least for me, because I didn’t know that there were ways to start a business while my husband was in the military,” she said.
— Melissa Green, Founder & CEO
- Melissa Green, Founder & CEO
In this podcast, Vince Loran and Enrique Acosta Gonzales speak with me about my service in the Navy, transition to becoming a Military Spouse, and my journey into entrepreneurship.
