She felt relieved to be back in Philadelphia, where Norton and a handful of friends and professors constitute what she calls her chosen family. I dont want to be gone from them too long, because then, like, they might move on, she told me. When Mackenzie initially contemplated applying for the Rhodes Scholarship, she asked Moore and Damianos, the recent Rhodes Scholars, if they thought it would be a problem that she was involved in a wrongful-death lawsuit that a family had filed against Penn. Suddenly, a New York cop remembered a long-ago murder. Yet, I was wrong. She was invited for an interview at a hedge fund, D. E. Shaw. People Projects Discussions Surnames God, I dont know, she wrote. When youve grown up with privilegeand everything around you is pretty and pristine and predictableyour tolerance for anything outside that world isnt very high, Martinez said. Mackenzie was in an intensive-care unit for three days and was given a diagnosis of epilepsy. And this next question may be tough. She broke me. She concluded, I was never broken. A month after the trial, the judge concluded, While it is possible that Petitioner was the cause of the alleged injuries, the court cannot make that finding by a preponderance of the evidence based on the evidence presented. The judge ordered that Morrisons name be struck from the state registry. And then you just throw away the real memory, the true one, and replace it with the one that they have fed you a million times, until that is the only thing you can remember.. Her preferences are shaping the face of American civil society because of the size of the funding shes providing, said Rob Reich, co-director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University. A detective named Carrie Brandt had been planning to follow up with Mackenzie at school that day, but instead she came to the hospital. At the end of the interview, she offered to connect Mackenzie with support. They learned that, the previous day, the history teacher had called Missouris Child Abuse and Neglect hotline, because Mackenzie had revealed details to her about being sexually abused by Lovelace. Perhaps her access to privilege helped her understand, in a way that other disadvantaged students might not, the ways that lite institutions valorize certain kinds of identities. When we allow stereotype to be our stand-in for disadvantaged groups, we are actually doing them a disservice, he said. The judge ordered that Morrisons name be struck from the state registry. In an e-mail, an attorney for the D.S.S. notified Mackenzies lawyer of the decision, writing, I am very saddened by the result in this case as I have always believed Mackenzie 100% on everything and I always will. It quickly became clear, he said, that this was a very unusual process, and my knowledge of standard disciplinary processes was of limited relevance. O.S.C. Those concerns were temporarily overshadowed when, less than five months later, on Dec. 15, 2020, Ms. Scott announced another, even bigger round of giving, $4.2 billion to 384 organizations, including hundreds of Easterseals, United Way, Y.W.C.A. ), Logan said that her lawyers did not want her to talk with me. chapters, groups that were doing a lot of good on the front lines during the pandemic but not the kind of innovation-focused giving that the Silicon Valley set prioritizes. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's glowing recommendation of MacKenzie Scott secured the writer a job working with her now-former husband, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Mackenzie went to Whitfield, a private prep school in St. Louis, where the schools wellness director, Ginny Fendell, called her the queen of compartmentalization. She got As, served in student government, played varsity soccer, managed the field-hockey team, and volunteered for the Special Olympics. A month later, the Rhodes Trust informed Mackenzie that it was launching an investigation into her personal history. Universities began looking for other ways to encourage diversity. Then, she drove them to Seattle while Mr. Bezos worked on the business plan in the passenger seat. Morrisons trial was held during the spring of Mackenzies junior year. Meet Mother Father and Radiologist Parents Mackenzie Fiercetons mother works as a radiologist and was raised in an upper-middle-class family. In April, 2021, an investigative subcommittee for the Rhodes Trust issued a report recommending that Mackenzies scholarship be rescinded. She had bruises all over her body in different stages of healingan obvious sign of child abuse.. And we all have enormous energy to devote to helping and protecting those we love.. It was shortly thereafter that the couple entered the rarest lore of high-tech start-ups. Investigate Cardiologist MD Carrie Morrisons Child Abuse Case Ms. Scotts parents, Jason Baker Tuttle and Holiday Tuttle. Mr. Jewett took on the assignment and got inventive, suggesting that faculty donations go toward students on financial aid, rather than to the school itself, a former Lakeside colleague recalled. The two flew to Fort Worth, where they picked it up. After you talked to the school. The D.S.S. Her own life has taken sharp turns that have shaped her choices, including her extraordinary leap into philanthropy, which in under three years has exceeded $12 billion in grants. When Mackenzie had come home that night, she said, her mother told her, I know you have been talking, and pushed her down their staircase and struck her several times in the face. Morrisons lawyer, Allison Schreiber Lee, had obtained a personal statement that Mackenzie had written to get a scholarship, which was nearly identical to her college essay, and she interrogated Mackenzie about differences between her medical records and her rendering of the experience. Ms. Scott went further, promising to keep at it until the safe is empty.. Given the financial instability of her teenage years, it would have been understandable if Ms. Scott had discouraged him from taking the risk. The acclaimed novelist Toni Morrison was Ms. Scotts mentor at Princeton University. Mr. Jewett was the kind of teacher students appreciated, jovial in manner and serious about his subject. Morrison has a record of 20 I had so much anger and grief, and I didnt want them to be affiliated in any way with this new life I was building, she said. We wanted to push the university to understand: if youre going to accept more and more high-need students, you have to be prepared to sustain them throughout their time here, she said. In an interview, she described how she, too, had been a first-generation, low-income student.. After she was released, her classmates told her how long they believed she had waited for medical care. notified Mackenzies lawyer of the decision, writing, I am very saddened by the result in this case as I have always believed Mackenzie 100% on everything and I always will., Morrison declined to speak with me on the record, except to write, Our greatest desire is that Mackenzie chooses to live a happy, healthy, honest and productive life, using her extraordinary gifts for the highest good. Speaking for her side of the family, she added, We will always be here for her., After the trial, Mackenzie decided to change her last name. notifying her that the university had requested an investigation because of concerns that you misrepresented and/or embellished your background. She was supposed to receive her social-work degree the following month, but the letter said that her records would automatically be placed on hold until this matter is resolved., Norton asked Rogers Smith, a colleague in the political-science department, if he would serve as Mackenzies adviser for the disciplinary proceedings. However, an anonymous father reported that she belonged to a rich family and an investigation was put upon her. I could tell that she was embarrassed, and she didnt want to be a burden, Cannon said. While Mackenzie was in the hospital, Morrison was released on bond, and she began calling people close to Mackenzie to tell her side of the story. Her mother is radiologist Dr. Carrie Morrison, and her hobbies at school included horseback riding, skydiving and white water rafting. Its hard to breathe because my ribs are so severely bruised, and I cant laugh, smile, or chew without it hurting, Mackenzie wrote in a journal she kept at the hospital. In an e-mail, an attorney for the D.S.S. I guess the only way I will find out what will not work for me in life is by trying it, she wrote to Ms. Morrison in September 1992, a few months after graduation and at a pivotal moment for her future. The two friends painted, with Ms. Scott producing a memorable portrait of her younger brother. He had died. She worked on a toy drive for the children of farmworkers and on fund-raisers for breast cancer. She cries, she doesnt eat, she doesnt sleep. On TLC's Unexpected , Caelan Morrison had to deal with being a teen dad while also navigating his declining relationship with the mother of his children, McKayla Adkins. In January 2019, Ms. Scott and Mr. Bezos jointly announced on his Twitter account that they were divorcing. The chosen charities were told they could not announce the gifts until the donor did. In addition to Ms. Tuttles work at boutiques, public records indicate that before the subprime meltdown, Mr. Tuttle was licensed in Florida as a mortgage broker, a real estate broker and assistant appraiser and registered half a dozen shell companies with names like FAMCO Group and REALCO Group. One of young MacKenzies own first public appearances was with her fourth-grade class in December 1979 at a Ross Town Council meeting, where she presented a class project to raise money to plant a new tree. Fendell did not accept the explanation, and she later told Mackenzie that she was legally obligated to notify Missouris Department of Social Services. But the outline of the story is this: Mackenzie was raised in a wealthy St. Louis suburb by a single mother who was repeatedly abusive, according to two state It is unclear exactly how big Ms. Scotts own staff is, but it is believed to be a small fraction of the Gates team. You never know where its going to end up. Its a funny thing about the truth. In the meantime, an administrative law judge for the S.E.C. Dorothy L. Espelage, a psychologist specializing in bullying prevention, recalled in an interview how she was sitting in a parking lot at the University of Illinois, where she worked at the time, when her phone rang. She gave overwhelmingly to groups led by women, people of color, members of the L.G.B.T.Q. She just bursts out laughing, Mackenzie wrote. Dr. Morrison was arrested at the time but the case was dropped by prosecutors who said they could never prove Mackenzies claims. Her approach to public life and charitable giving has echoed her approach to storytelling. Mr. Jewett lived in a modest house and had separated from his wife in 2018. I am not a natural for big groups because I am such an introvert, she told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She showed up at my classroom door with a bloodied and battered face and then fainted, the teacher wrote. (Penn denies that there are accessibility problems with the Caster Building which contributed to Mackenzies medical emergency or to Drivers death.). It was bad, she said. Mr. Bezos and Ms. Scott in 2018, the year before the couple divorced. He edited what was my first and, happily, last piece of financial marketing literature, and after our wedding I started working full time on a novel, she wrote to Ms. Morrison of that period. Mackenzies parents had separated when she was six, and Mackenzie lived with her mother, Carrie Morrison, the director of breast imaging and mammography at Liz, the wife of the protagonist, Luther, pins a clipping of a San Francisco Chronicle article about Bay Area philanthropy to the refrigerator, with a picture of her sister and two daughters on the porch of their hilltop Victorian. She did recall that, once she was inside, there was a kind of commotion, and eventually, like, a bunch of administrators kind of rushed into the room, and somebody said, Call 911.. She had straight blond shoulder-length hair, and her teeth were impeccably white. She had pledged to give until the safe is empty but her remaining Amazon shares were worth more than at the time of the divorce, the result of a soaring market that fueled further debate over billionaires and income inequality. In a 2003 ruling regarding race-conscious admissions at the University of Michigan Law School, the Supreme Court narrowly upheld affirmative action but wrote that the practice should not continue indefinitely. Although all criminal charges against Morrison had been dropped, the D.S.S., which has its own procedures for assessing guilt, substantiated Mackenzies allegations. Her room, on the third floor, was mostly bare, though she had hung seventeen photographs, mostly of college friends. No matter how hard powerful institutions and people try to manipulate it, it stays the same. She will not work to project what she wants others to see (Kind! Like Ms. Scott, he got divorced in 2019. She explained she was helping her daughter remove gum from hair when investigator, Mackenzie, and her mother. programs had affected Mackenzies understanding of the concept of first-generation, but the panel determined that Mackenzie should be disciplinedwith a four-thousand-dollar fine and a notation on her transcript that shed been sanctionedfor misrepresenting herself on her application to the school of social work. Would I have ever considered a job in finance if I hadnt been having those difficulties? she asked. Morrison and White spoke on the phone. FGLI kids can go to private school and/or college preparatory school just as Mackenzie did. Three days later, on Dec. 18, 2020, the change of her last name to Scott was legal and official, according to court records from Bellevue, Wash. Amy Hillier, a faculty member at the social-work school, took a sabbatical from Penn because she was so disillusioned by Mackenzies treatment. She has given me a real example of a life of passionate devotion to more than one calling.. She took a sip of water and began crying. Genealogy for James Thomson Morrison (c.1861 - d.) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. I dont ever want to cause her any pain or anything, which is why Ill probably end up burning this, Mackenzie wrote in the journal. They dated for three months before getting engaged and were married three months after that. Thats what scares me about this case. So, so wrong. Some of her high-school teachers had reassured her that she was part of their familytheir bonus child. But they stopped calling. There was also a nascent sense in the book of philanthropy as a good. The family had an expensive home in the Pacific Heights neighborhood in San Francisco and another house in the town of Ross, what the San Francisco Examiner at the time called the bosky dell in Marin County for the well-to-do., In the afterword to her first novel, Ms. Scott tells the story of how, when she was just 6 years old, she wrote a 142-page novel called The Bookworm, which she described as a chapter book about the adventures of a worm who loved to read., It took me almost a year of afternoons lying on our living room carpet with a stack of Oreos, a sheaf of kindergarten newsprint, and a fat pencil, she wrote, and I distinctly remember the moment when it first occurred to me that I loved writing differently than I loved riding my bike or swimming.. All rights reserved. Our customers can browse an electronic catalog of 1.4 million titles by author, title, subject, and keywords and place orders via computer. At Mackenzies request, Penn had not listed her contact information in its online directory. She Universities didnt start regularly tracking first-generation status until the early two-thousands, and there has never been a clear definition of the term, which emerged in part because it was a more politically digestible label than race. Class of 88: Ill miss being with you, she wrote. She had a feeding tube inserted, and was given a diagnosis of post-concussion syndrome. Molly Mudd, a nurse assigned to her case, told me, There was the physical component happening with her head injury, but there was also the emotional component of someone who has been fearful for a long time and has tried to push it down, and all of a sudden it catches up to her. I went with the story my mom told me to tell, which is that I was playing with my dogs in the living room and I tripped and fell into a table, she wrote in her journal. doesnt recall Mackenzie asking for witness names before it issued its report, and that it is standard practice not to identify witnesses. Damianos said, She asked me, I wonder if this litigation will come back to bite me. Damianos and Moore both assured her that institutional endorsement for scholarships was handled by an office that was not likely to be concerned with lawsuits against the university. Her case was referred to a panel of three faculty members in the social-work school. In November, 2020, the Rhodes Trust named Mackenzie one of thirty-two scholar-elects from the United States. She was struck by the way other students relied on their parents, consulting them even about small choices, such as how to phrase an e-mail to a professor. There was commonality in the fact that a lot of us had different relationships with home or family. When she got into Penn, she said, I had never heard of F.G.L.I., but these labels resonated with a story I was still trying to process., Mackenzie was one of fifteen freshmen selected for Penns Civic Scholars, a program for students committed to social justice and community service. My mom, Mackenzie responded. G. Scott Cuming was an executive and general counsel at El Paso Natural Gas, a powerful energy company that faced antitrust actions over its acquisition of a pipeline company. That same year, her mother made headlines in the local papers fighting to save neighborhood trees threatened by Dutch elm disease. Ms. Scott landed in the office next to him. She was removing the spectacle from the proceedings. The Times columnist Nicholas Kristof tweeted the Inquirer article, saying it was thrilling that a Rhodes Scholarship had gone to a first-gen low-income foster youth, and Mackenzie retweeted what he wrote. She called me and was like, Oh my god, my kids being bullied, and as a parent Ive found theres not a lot of resources, said Dr. Espelage, now a professor at the University of North Carolina. Mackenzie was crying, and Winkelstein asked again, What happened?, Sobbing, Mackenzie responded, My mom tried to kill me., Winkelstein paused, so that Mackenzie could catch her breath, and then asked, Do you think these documentations were an accurate representation of your experiences?, After the meeting, Walter Licht, the faculty director of the Civic Scholars program, said that the staff memberwho didnt want to use her name, because her job at Penn is not securecalled him distraught. In the winter of 2020, shed had a seizure in the basement of the Caster Building, where classes in the school of social work were held. She had become important with no black-tie fund-raisers and no velvet dresses. I was considered the only generation at this point. She went on, I legally did not have parents and never considered them as such to begin with., After asking about Mackenzies time in foster care, Winkelstein moved on to her college essay. Husband of Private. The Lakeside School in Seattle, where Dan Jewett, Ms. Scotts new husband, used to teach. Nevertheless, Raffaele encouraged her not to take any risks. Karen Weise contributed reporting. interviewed Morrison in a waiting room of the hospital. She was., Mackenzie was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania with a full scholarship, facilitated by QuestBridge. One of the main characters in Traps is a famous actress named Jessica, who worries about security and employs a bodyguard. My own reflection after recent events revealed a dividend of privilege Id been overlooking: the attention I can call to organizations and leaders driving change, she said, in her first public catalog of her giving. She was infinitely more talented than anyone else in my class, and that was evident then, said Jeff Sloan, who taught her in sixth grade. In the winter of her sophomore year of high school, Mackenzie Morrison sat in her bedroom closet and began a new diary. When Smith realized this, he wrote the O.S.C., I am profoundly ashamed of us all. (The university says the O.S.C. Thinking about existing in a world where I had no parents just couldnt be a possibility in my mind, she told me. At one point they paid for 50 friends to take part in a scavenger hunt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Mr. Bezos birthday. There just might be a small part left that loves me in some way, at least I hope., In September, 2014, early in her junior year, Mackenzie drove to school and looked for her history teacher, who had become one of the few people in whom she felt comfortable confiding. Shortly before Ms. Scotts 17th birthday, her familys fortunes took a sudden turn. One question on the application asked, Are you the first generation in your family to attend college? The Web site of Penn First Plus, a university program founded in 2018 to support F.G.L.I. MacKenzie Bezos has authored two novels, so far. Kitty Bennett contributed research. During her free period at school, she roamed the halls looking for teachers who might be willing to chat. But after a big launch, the site seemed to fizzle. Mackenzie talked with Cannon, her mentor at Civic House, about whether to apply. Join Facebook to connect with Mackenzie Morrison and others you may know. In addition, she would have to take a mandatory leaveto get needed counseling and supportbefore the university would grant her M.S.W. This article is also based on previously unpublished letters between Ms. Scott and Ms. Morrison, kept in the Nobel laureates archive at the Princeton University library. A stockbroker tried to phone Mr. Tuttles company in November 1987 and was told that the family was in Europe for the month, according to the S.E.C. On a recent morning no one answered the door or the phone. But her mother and Wendy White apparently stayed in touchin an e-mail after Mackenzie was questioned, Morrison said that she was saddened to learn that M stuck to her story. She wrote, She has become emboldened over time, and has been successful with her evolving tale for 6 yrs. She offered that White or her staff could visit her home, in St. Louis. No one wants to offend her, but the choices can appear capricious. Some of those approaches were from staff at the influential nonprofit consultancy Bridgespan, others from representatives at Lost Horse. had considered placing her with one of Morrisons sisters, but the Whitfield principal had called the D.S.S. Her mom knocked on the door and told her, Im takingyour keys and Im calling you in sick to school. When Mackenzie heard her mother leave the house, she got a spare key and drove to school, though she had no memory of doing so. They asked how Mackenzie had been injured. After filling a notebook with lists of surnames that she thought sounded bold (Fairstone, Stronghill, Silverfield), she submitted a petition with the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, changing her name to Mackenzie Fierceton. students, she had expressed a similar concern about the sorts of personal statement expected from disadvantaged students: The expression that comes up is poverty porncontinually being pressured by your school, when you get to a higher-education institution, or even in high school, to share your storyand thank donors, and whatever the case is. (Penn said that it doesnt pressure students to tell their stories but supports them when they choose to do so. It is seven years later, and I am still having to prove and prove and prove what has happened to me., Anea Moore, who helped found Penn First, wrote the Rhodes Trust a letter about Mackenzie. 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