Our Story

While practicing law at the same law firm, Amanda-Jane Thomas and Shanita Nicholas became friends. Eventually, the two women also became business partners, their dreams and passions converging into the creation of Sip & Sonder. Established in 2017 in Inglewood, CA, Sip & Sonder is a global Black women-owned coffee brand with a portfolio of coffeehouses, a coffee roastery, and digital content spaces. 'Sonder' is the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. Our coffeehouses are entrepreneurial and creative hubs where creatives, entrepreneurs, freelancers, curators, and everyone in between can simply exist, grab a cup of coffee, connect, create, and put sonder into action. As a manufacturer, Sip & Sonder intentionally curates specialty coffee products that originate from communities of color around the world with processes that are sustainable, traceable, and intentional. Through original content and programming and keeping our thumb on the cultural zeitgeist, Sip & Sonder is redefining the global coffee experience and leading the next wave of coffee. By centering Black diasporic experiences and telling the stories of stakeholders at origin, we invite the world to