Where inclusion meets exploration — celebrating diversity through creativity, belonging, and community.
Welcome!
Meet Anakin, a young man with fierce determination and an amazing life story to tell. Learning to live with multiple health-limiting and serious conditions has been a journey for Anakin. Finding a place in society as a valued, employed, accepted, included and supported member has been an even more challenging battle.
When Anakin finished his 4 year fundraising journey with the Make A Wish Foundation (raising $30,000 by rappelling down skyscrapers), he told his mom and sister that he wanted to create a space for people with diverse-abilities to have a job, a place to be themselves and a way to explore many aspects of the arts with friends....
The Diversity Den Society and the Pup-n-Cup Family Cafe & Shop were born.....
Coming up with the idea wasn't difficult because.... coffee! As life-long coffee consumers, Anakin and his family embraced the plan of a coffee shop. The dog theme was naturally integrated from an obsessive love of dogs and the dog training classes upstairs (run by Elizabeth; Anakin's mom)
