He built his coffee shop out of a closet on the University of Utah’s campus. These students fought to save it.

“The signs, the petitions, the emails, all these things helped me to stay,” Julio Cesar Durand said.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Julio Cesar Durand, who runs INTI Specialty Coffee in the Union building at the University of Utah, talks about his life story around coffee on Friday, June 5, 2026.