Sherry Dunbar is the green coffee specialist for the York roasting plant, one of three operational Starbucks roasting plants in the country. She began her career as a roaster technician and transitioned to green coffee as an apprentice to the green coffee specialist. After four years of apprenticeship she earned the role of specialist. Dunbar has spent time in origin countries working with agronomists on all aspects of coffee processing. She has also worked in the Starbucks Coffee Trading Co. in Lausanne, Switzerland tasting coffee with officers from growing regions around the world. Currently, Dunbar is the senior training expert for the Starbucks Coffee master program on the East Coast, she is also the “sensory expert” for all coffee purchased for East Coast retail. Over the last year, she has tasted over 10,000 cups of coffee as part of quality assurance for all green coffee beans that are brought to the York plant for roasting.