Kinship Over Coffee: Brewing Hope at Deep Time AVL
From The UPLift with Tzedek: Real Talk for Real Change by Tzedek Social Justice Fund
February 23, 2026 · 33 min · Season 4 · Episode 3
About this episode
This episode explores how Deep Time AVL uses coffee to bridge the gap between prison and possibility through meaningful employment and collaboration.
What if your morning coffee could change lives? In this episode of The UPLift, we sit down with the Deep Time AVL team to explore how unfiltered engagement, meaningful employment, and fierce collaboration are reshaping reentry in Asheville—one cup at a time. At Deep Time, coffee becomes the unlikely bridge between prison and possibility. Operating as a coffee roastery and café run with, by, and for people impacted by incarceration, Deep Time blends social enterprise rigor with tra...
People in this episode
Host: Tzedek Social Justice Fund
Topics covered
- social enterprise
- reentry
- coffee
- incarceration
- employment
- collaboration
Keywords
- Deep Time AVL
- coffee roastery
- reentry
- social enterprise
- incarceration
- employment
- Asheville
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Deep Time AVL
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