SPOKANE — Parker Ritzmann has earned a spot in one of the world’s most prestigious graduate fellowship programs in China. Ritzmann was born in Ethiopia and adopted by a family in Kentucky when he was five. Hardships at home led him to a boarding school, and eventually the Hutton Settlement children’s home in Spokane Valley. “My mindset on things was more so, why me? Why am I even here?” Ritzmann said about arriving at Hutton as a 13-year-old. He said he struggled and was getting into trouble until a mentor at Hutton gave him a choice: walk away or stop starting to reach for opportunities. “I was like, holy smokes, someone is giving me a choice to do something about where I want to go,” Ritzmann said. During COVID-19, Ritzmann started a small coffee stand on Hutton’s campus. It grew into Hope Neighborhood Roasters. “The goal was how do we create a space to uplift the youth in the children’s Home,” Ritzmann said. Hope Neighborhood Roasters is a student-led coffee roasting program…..