After first encountering sipping chocolate in Oaxaca in 2012, Jonas founded the bean-to-bar chocolate company, Firefly Chocolate, with the mission of inspiring awe and wonder through cacao. Always with a focus on health, he pioneered a bio-regional wild harvested chocolate bar, celebrating bay nuts, a food used by the native peoples of the SF Bay Area. Jonas, a first generation American originally from Germany, is also a Mechanical Engineering graduate from Stanford, where his favorite classes were in the machine shop, and where he studied energy efficient buildings. Jonas has lived in eco-villages and cooperative houses for the majority of the last 10 years. He spends many months each year sleeping outside directly on the earth. He hopes to meet you one day and share a frothy morning cacao drink!