Today we learn about various retail trends and challenges from our speaker is Jessica Keahey, Founder of Sweet Freedom Cheese – the first independently-owned, full-service, cut-to-order cheese shop in Arkansas.

Jessica founded Sweet Freedom in 2013 and has studied extensively with cheesemakers and mongers in the US and around the globe before opening the cheese shop in 2018, the same year she was chosen as the scholarship recipient for the American Cheese Society Certified Cheese Professional exam and earned the CCP distinction. Jessica holds a WSET Level 3 certification with the Wine & Spirit Education Trust and has also recently been profiled in Women Make Arkansas: Conversations with 50 and Culture Magazine.

Learn more at www.sweetfreedomcheese.com