Hannah Johnson ’12 holds a degree in biology, but you won’t find her in a lab full of microscopes and test tubes.

She spends her days alongside coffee beans and espresso machines at Cabra Coffee, the coffee shop she opened last year in Cedar Crest, N.M.

It’s true that most students pursuing a biology degree don’t often include the coffee business on their lists of potential career paths. But Hannah, whose father owned a coffee shop and introduced her to coffee at a young age, saw things differently. “Coffee came very naturally to me,” Hannah says. “Biology, I loved, but I could never seem to get it quite right.”