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NCA Luminary Award

The NCA’s highest honor, the Luminary Award recognizes an individual whose extraordinary and groundbreaking contribution(s) has been a driving force of positive change and has had a significant, profound, and lasting impact on the coffee community. The Luminary Award (formerly the NCA Lifetime Achievement Award) is not presented annually, but rather in recognition of an individual whose contributions are deserving of this exceptional honor.

Please review the Terms & Conditions for award criteria and nomination requirements.

Questions: Contact Terri Bartlett, Director of Member Relations, at trbartlett@ncausa.org.


Past Winners of the NCA Luminary Award

2017

ALAN LEVITON, M.D.

Harvard Medical School, Professor of Neurology

Boston Children’s Hospital, Director of Neuroepidemiology


2011

HOWARD SCHULTZ

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

The Starbucks Coffee Company


Special Thanks to Eight O'Clock Coffee Company

 

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