Quench Juice Bar, owned by Renee Gordon, a Trinidadian native and young professional who gained her Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the illustrious Howard University in Washington, DC. Hailing from the twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Renée has represented her county as a national swimmer from the age of seven to nineteen years old, on an international level, at many swimming competitions worldwide.Being a swimmer allowed Renée to maintain a somewhat strict, healthy, diet, filled with natural juices, smoothies, and 'ground provisions' (the term used in West Indian nations to describe a number of traditional root vegetable staples such as yams, sweet potatoes, dasheen root, eddos, and cassava), and many other healthy foods. With her experience, Renée fell in love with health and wellness and learning about how different foods that are filled with many different types of vitamins and minerals, are essential to the body.Renée’s grandfather, who still resides in Trinidad, and who she has coined "the juice King", also had a serious role to play in her love for juice. Growing up, Renée was fortunate enough to have access to a backyard filled with a plethora of fruit and vegetable trees. Her grandfather experimented with different fruits and vegetables, making many unique combinations, which were ALWAYS crowd favorites! With her love for juice, and the opportunity to be employed at a juice bar, Renée decided that her creations also needed to be enjoyed by the greater public, so she started offering samples of her juice blends to her friends and family.Recently, Quench has relocated from DC to Baltimore and we have noticed that there aren't many juice bars that offer natural juices, smoothies, smoothie bowls, elixirs, and other healthy snacks, and we decided that we would like Baltimore to be the home of our very first storefront. Being a person of color, Renee knows how important it is to share and encourage healthy eating habits with her community because we as a people are prone to many diseases such as obesity and diabetes, which can be controlled and maintained if the proper education is at our fingertips.