NWA Profile: Robin Atkinson puts fashion to work at INTERFORM

When Robin Atkinson learned the relationships immigrant and refugee communities have to sewn trades, she wanted to find a way to incorporate them in Northwest Arkansas Fashion Week.

March 24, 2024 at 4:40 a.m.

by April Wallace

Robin is “really smart, a great organizer,” said artist Kathy Thompson. “She's very intuitive and capable. She's just a real advocate for the arts and [that] shows up in everything she's doing in the fashion world. She's just … got that way about her, to help organize people and see the bigger picture and the possibilities in it.” (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Andy Shupe)
Robin is “really smart, a great organizer,” said artist Kathy Thompson. “She's very intuitive and capable. She's just a real advocate for the arts and [that] shows up in everything she's doing in the fashion world. She's just … got that way about her, to help organize people and see the bigger picture and the possibilities in it.” (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Andy Shupe)


Robin Atkinson, CEO of INTERFORM, found herself presenting to a room of 50 other CEOs during a NeighborWorks leadership cohort and trying to describe what it was that her nonprofit does.

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