Alicia Towns Franken embodies a tantalizing combination: wine — as another in my periodic series on curiosity and our senses — and an actual boots-on-the-ground effort to encourage and enable curiosity where barriers have long existed.
Alicia is a sommelier and wine consultant who serves as executive director of Wine Unify, a nonprofit organization that has set out to level the playing field when it comes to wine. They foster wine education for underrepresented minority groups and amplify the voices of the people of color who are already thriving within the wine industry.
What if we make wine more accessible by encouraging curiosity more inclusively?
Theme music by Sean Balick; “Down by the Bank” by Barstool, via Blue Dot Sessions.