https://time.com/5809003/brooklyn-principal-dez-ann-romain-36-dies-coronavirus/

When you graduated from Dez-Ann Romain’s class, she didn’t leave your life. She became your friend, multiple former students tell TIME.

“She supported us through all our future endeavors, whether it [was] personal or professional,” Curtis Turney-Rentas, 27, tells TIME in a Facebook message. Romain taught Turney-Rentas high school art at the Frederick Douglass Academy VI in Queens,