 About
Awaken Café is a green, award-winning espresso bar, tea house, boutique ice-creamery, beer & wine bar, performance & event space, and art gallery in the heart of the new downtown Oakland, with the mission to bring people together and launch movements.
Mission Statement
Our mission is a simple, but ambitious one: Bring People Together. Launch Movements.
Our Promises
- We provide each and every person who walks through our doors with exemplary service, respect, and honor.
- We serve the highest quality and most sustainable products possible; and excel at the preparation of the products we serve.
- We make a tangible, positive difference in the lives of our customers, our staff, and the greater community.
- We generate, nurture and support important dialogues, a thriving arts & cultural scene, and groundbreaking events.
- Our business is successful, sustainable, and expanding.
Management Team
Awaken Cafe is proudly owned and operated by a committed group of individuals from diverse backgrounds and experience:
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Cortt Dunlap, Owner & Manager
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Nick Neuhausel
Senn-Delaney, Partner/EVP
Laura Basha Neuhausel
White Bird Rising, Coach
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Shalene Rose
Realtor, DRE license #01505455
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Eric Berlow, Ph.D.
EricLBerlow.net, Ecologist
Ted, Fellow
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Annie Dunlap
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Nik Greene
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Dale Christensen, R.Ph., Ph.D.
Affiliate Professor, Univ. of Washington School of Pharmacy
Professor Emeritus, Univ. of North Carolina School of Pharmacy
President, Washington Pharmacy Consultants, LLC
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Alexander Zendzian
Joe Goode Dance Co, Dancer
Brass Menazeri, Musician
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Erin Kilmer-Neel
One PacificCoast Foundation, Program Manager
Beau Kilmer
RAND, Senior Policy Researcher
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Stuart Adam
Adam & Partners, Managing Member
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Andrew Naber
Foodsprout.com, Founder
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Phillip B. Greene
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Lon Price
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