In 2023, retired educator Irma Levenson, looking to brighten the spirits of teachers in her community, organized a fashion show with classroom-appropriate outfits. To achieve it, she gathered clothes from her neighbors. “Within days, I had bags of clothing, a lot new with tags,” she says. The fashion show sparked an idea for the College Park resident. Levenson took the clothing to a nearby school and provided the teachers there with a free pop-up boutique to shop for outfits. The event was so successful that she created a nonprofit organization, the Teacher’s Closet , to keep it going.

The former Montessori teacher, who is from St. Lucia but moved to Atlanta with her American husband 10 years ago, launched Teacher’s Closet to help teachers who want new clothes but don’t have the funds o

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