23 year old Sana Javeri Kadri founded Diaspora Co. in the fall of 2017 with just one spice - Pragati Turmeric - sourced from an equally young and idealistic farm partner andnow dear friend Mr. Prabhu Kasaraneni. But from their very first day, the big, audacious dream was to grow a radically new, decidedly delicious and truly equitable spice trade, to push a broken system into an equal exchange, and to have a lot of fun doing it. Today, Diaspora Co. sources 30 single origin spices from 150 farms across India and Sri Lanka. They proudly pay their farm partners an average of 6x above the commodity price. In a system where fair trade is a mere 15% premium, this pay what they believe to be a living wage, an investment in the kind of leadership and land stewardship that will build climate resilience and more delicious food systems.