In 2016, Samara Davis was living in the San Francisco area and doing brand activations for spirits companies. She’d been trying to find her place in the online whiskey groups, but struggled to find a place where she felt like she belonged. She turned her frustration into a mission and founded the Black Bourbon Society.
“It came about through two different ways,” recalls Davis. “Number one, I was falling in love with whiskey, like completely in love with it, and I was looking for my own community to join. Back then, there was one in Kentucky that was really big, Women Who Whisky was just getting started, and
