“ Tea is given a stage, a mise-en-scène, where it is protected, nurtured and admired – before it is even infused – thereby sparking an emotion, an anticipation, and a promise.”

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SUZETTE HAMMOND is the founder of an education-based small business Being Tea, American Tea Ambassador to Vietnam, and a practitioner of various activities supporting mental health, including yoga and tea meditation.  She has been working with tea for over 16 years now. She is also Vietnam’s American Ambassador for Snow Shan teas. She was  also a judge at the Tea Masters Cup in Las Vegas in 2019.

She is also a journalist. Each month, she interviews special guests who are mainly friends and people whose work she follows, as a means to introduce each other to different audiences and share ideas. The topics they discuss are intentionally not always directly “tea related”, but they do highlight layers of the tea experience. For example, while she may interview wonderful tea producers, she also have interviewed artists, yoga teachers, and coffee professionals on topics like expression of creativity, spirituality, and value vs perfection — themes which resonate through our experience of tea.