Kuumba Made began in a 36-foot outrigger canoe. Inside the boat: Denise Kuumba Piazza, age 19, a Bostonian. Hard on the heels of a New England winter she’d toughed out in a teepee, now set afloat in the tepid, turquoise waters of the Caribbean.
She learned how to make coconut oil.
“I fell in love with that process,” said Kuumba, founder and CEO of Kuumba Made, a botanicals and fragrances company that has called Tucson home for 45 years…