, a tea retail and wholesale company she cofounded in 2000. Weber served the past decade as a director of the Tea Association of Canada, later known as THAC after its mission expanded to include herbals. During these years she chaired several committees including education and retail and helped organize annual conferences jointly hosted with the Tea Association of the U.S.A. Weber was instrumental in establishing tea education as a priority for the association, and in 2016 she established the Academy of Tea, which provides THAC third-party support for the accredited TAC Tea Sommelier program. A political science graduate with honors from the University of Toronto, Weber is widely praised for her teaching skills and knowledge of tea. She begins her duties June 1.
