NEW YORK (PIX11) -- April is Volunteer Appreciation Month! Every Monday, PIX11’s Monica Morales honors a mom making it happen. This week, it’s an Upper West Side grandmother who has volunteered for years helping more than a hundred New York City women prepare to find their dream jobs.
Tiffany Warnick, who is from Bedford-Stuyvesant, is excited and a little nervous to reenter the workforce. After two years, Warnick is back on her journey to find her dream job in health care. During an interview on Zoom, she realized the only dress shirt she had didn’t fit anymore.
Stefanie Steel is helping her look and feel great. Since 2021, Steel has been a volunteer for Bottomless Closet.
Steel is known as the "Queen of Steam." No job is too small, and she is a wiz with the steamer. She can find any accessory to make a person pop on that job interview.
The transformation is more than clothes, it’s training too. It’s all free thanks to the nonprofit Bottomless Closet, helping women like Warnick since 1999 get the clothing and the confidence to land their dream job. Executive Director Melissa Norden said volunteers like Steel are a critical ingredient to their success.
Steel has personally coached and dressed more than 150 women for their job interviews and careers. Steel is a member of Bottomless Closet’s “100+ Club,” which means she put in over a hundred hours last year alone. Eleven volunteers, all women, reached that milestone.
Steel will be honored at Bottomless Closet’s annual spring luncheon on May 14. Monica Morales is hosting.
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