Courtesy of Claudia Shivers
- Claudia Shivers, 49, launched her business Queen Coffee Bean in 2020 after being incarcerated.
- Shivers was part of a program that gives entrepreneurship training to formerly incarcerated people.
- She said she typically averages about $2,500 a month in sales.
When Claudia Shivers thinks of a great cup of coffee, she imagines the home kitchen of her grandmother, Queen Esther. The air would be warm from the heat of the oven and she can almost smell her grandmother's fresh-baked blackberry cobbler.