For ten years, Dirty Girl Coffee, on 82 High St., Glouster, has served locals and visitors craft-roasted beverages.
“We believe where women thrive, communities thrive,” Dirty Girl’s mission states.
With both a brick-and-mortar location and online shop selling coffee beans, merchandise and pour-over packets, Dirty Girl serves not only the Glouster area, but a wide span of customers.
“I have not visited the actual brick-and-mortar store … that being said, we order their beans regularly,” a review on the Dirty Girl website by Mary, a business owner from out of the area, said.
Miley McKee, a barista at Dirty Girl, said the company’s mission is important to the area because of its emphasis on empowering women.
“Between the customers and the business, we support each other,” McKee said. “What Dirty Girl is based on is supporting women and helping women out. It is a woman-owned business, that’s actually what I love about it most.”
Jane Cavarozzi, alongside her wife, Kara Tripp, co-founded the business in 2015. Montana Stake, the roaster at Dirty Girl, said the business provides a sense of community.
“We have a lot of regular customers who have been coming since we opened, and I feel like that’s a warm thing to bring to the community,” Stake said.
Stake said the couple started the business in their home.
“The underneath section of their house ... they started roasting and doing wholesale,” Stake said.
After around seven years of home production, Stake said, they restored a building in Glouster and founded the shop. Dirty Girl moved to its current location in July 2023, according to a previous report by The Post.
Some of Dirty Girl’s missions include “captaining” projects to improve conditions in Glouster, working with local organizations to help women pursue entrepreneurship and run for political office, and supporting other small businesses.
Dirty Girl also working with the Glouster Revitalization Organization to develop a 3,000 square-foot food collective with a kitchen for food entrepreneurs to get an affordable start in town.
Maddock Carrasquillo, a senior studying communications at Ohio University, said the coffee shop is an LGBTQIA+ friendly environment.
“It was a really big deal to have LGBTQ+ representation in the area,” Carsquillo said. “It is very welcoming.”
Although Carrasquillo is from Elyria, Ohio, he said he has family members living in Glouster and often visits Dirty Girl with them. He said it is a place of bonding and relaxation.
“Seeing my mom’s town, my grandma’s town … and everybody having that space, it was important for me,” Carrasquillo said. “We all own a bunch of their merch and everything.”
Dirty Girl, roughly 20 minutes from Uptown Athens, might not be a convenient coffee stop for Athens locals; however, its products can be found across the county. Dirty Girl beans are stocked on the shelves at OU’s Jefferson Marketplace, the Union, Donkey Coffee and other locations across town.
“It is so important to me that Glouster is represented in Athens County ... students may not realize … Dirty Girl is from around here, but being in those spaces is important,” Carrasquillo said.
Carrasquillo also said selling products from businesses located outside of Uptown Athens is important to bridge a divide between OU students and locals.
Monday through Friday, customers can stop at Dirty Girl from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for a coffee or pastry. On weekends, Dirty Girl is open 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
