Lisa Smith, her friends mother, recalled that, whenever Mackenzie stayed at her house, she would meticulously clean stuff. Norton wrote a letter to Gutmann, Penns president, warning that the university had been made complicit in a long campaign of continuing abuse. Norton says that Gutmann did not respond. She wrote that Mackenzie, in her application, had failed to acknowledge her upper middle-class upbringing and provides a description of a life of abuse that the judicial process concluded could not be substantiated. Winkelstein attached orders showing that a circuit court had reversed the D.S.S.s finding of abuse, and that Morrisons arrest had been expunged. Family is not the people you are related to by blood, she wrote. Her mother is radiologist Dr. Carrie Morrison, and her hobbies at school included horseback riding, skydiving and white water rafting. For some nonprofits, curiosity has curdled into fear, as leaders fret that when their peers receive grants from Ms. Scott and they are passed over, it could imply that they are mismanaged or ineffective. As you revise, I am at your service if, and only if, you want me to be, Ms. Morrison had written in a three-page typed letter of suggestions for her manuscript, a copy of which is in her archive at Princeton. 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. Fierceton, who was born Mackenzie Morrison, grew up with her mother in St. Louis, Missouri where she attended a $30,000-a-year private school A new report But I do feel I got to a point well-suited to some perspective-fostering maternity leave and a dose of serious criticism from willing readers., She continued sending drafts to Ms. Morrison, thanking her every time for reading the latest version, and she kept up with a family tradition of sending annual Thanksgiving cards. These stories attract attention, in part because they offer comfort that, at least on occasion, such things happen. Then the University of Pennsylvania accused her of lying. People Projects Discussions Surnames Another hallmark of Ms. Scotts personality on display in her writing life was her dedication to intense research. Nobody fits into a certain mold or stereotype, just like I do not, she wrote. They asked how Mackenzie had been injured. During their investigation of Fierceton, Penn's general counsel spoke to "Michael Hayes, the prosecutor in St. Louis who had charged Dr. Morrison with child (A hotline caseworker had notified the police.) Her mother, Carrie Morrison, gave a very different story of what happened that day. She showed up at my classroom door with a bloodied and battered face and then fainted, the teacher wrote. In a deeper sense, her public identity had also changed. 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. Mackenzie said that her college counsellor had told her that, as an independent student estranged from her family, this information was not required. (A spokesperson for the Rhodes Trust wrote, Fairness to all our applicants demands that if any issues or allegations arise, we consider them carefully, adding, We provide applicants multiple opportunities to respond, correct inaccuracies and share information.), Mackenzie wanted to submit a response to the Rhodes report, but Raffaele warned that her case could be referred to federal prosecutors, on the ground that she had misrepresented her finances in her application for federal aida possibility that he said White had raised. In the hallways she seemed introverted, but would come alive during the classroom discussions, said Jonathan Usuka, who met her during freshman orientation and also studied creative writing. Classmates at Hotchkiss said they remembered Ms. Scott as disciplined about her work, gentle with others and humble in her manner. During what would have been Ms. Scotts senior year of high school, ads appeared in local newspapers back in California for bankruptcy sales for J. Baker Tuttle Corporation, including items like IBM Selectric typewriters, Epson printers and mahogany desks. But Mackenzies friends and teachers noticed that in her mothers presence Mackenzie physically recoiled. Norton has tried to create new domestic routinesdoing puzzles; watching rock-climbing movies, a shared interestso that, she said, its not about her fitting into our life. Would I have ever considered a job in finance if I hadnt been having those difficulties? she asked. When she visited friends and former teachers, she tried to take up as little space as possible. Karen Weise contributed reporting. A friend from Hotchkiss, Margot Bass, described her as original in everything from how she dressed eschewing the Laura Ashley prints many women wore on campus to how she saw the world. When he called again in December the phone number was out of service, and a subsequent letter came back marked Moved Left No Address, according to commission documents. The university had thirty business days to answer Mackenzies suit, but it produced a hundred-and-thirty-page response in nine business days, during the Christmas holiday. Mackenzie was in an intensive-care unit for three days and was given a diagnosis of epilepsy. She Gutmann more than doubled the number of Penn students from low-income and first-generation families, her faculty biography explains. Critics complained that she had retreated into less transparency rather than share more information, as nonprofit governance experts had called for. With the sought-after prize of Ms. Morrison as her thesis adviser, Ms. Scott had written a 168-page work of fiction called The Fathering Water, in which the father, Luther Augery, keeps hidden that he has quit his job and settled for a low-paying one. Mackenzie may have centered certain aspects of her background to the exclusion of othersfor reasons we are certain she feels are validin a way that creates a misimpression, the report concluded. The D.S.S. Last fall, Mackenzie began the sociology Ph.D. program at Oxford, which had admitted her before she withdrew from the Rhodes; shed lost her funding, but a professor at Penn offered to pay for her first year. and had one more year until she completed her M.S.W., to move in. Mackenzie is living proof of the parent coaching style in the book. She wondered if the kind face was a type of ego defense mechanism that her mother would use in an attempt to undo the wrong she has most recently done. Sometimes, in the journal, Mackenzie used the word family in quotes. 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. Class of 88: Ill miss being with you, she wrote. 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. She imagined that starting over would be the easiest thing b/c I wasnt leaving behind a regular family like so many others, she wrote in her journal, two weeks after arriving at Penn. The story was quickly picked up by other news outlets. Parents and teachers from Whitfield gave her new clothes and school supplies. Rachel Webb, one of Mackenzies teachers from elementary school, said that Morrison left a message on her voice mail. That was when she published a new letter this past December, the one where she opened up about her struggles during college, showed more of herself, but with the headline, No Dollar Signs This Time, which meant both that the symbol $ wasnt used, but also that she did not say how many billions had gone out the door since June. Death: December 31, 2008 (80) Immediate Family: Son of John Morrison and Catriona Morrison. Probably not., She was interviewed for the hedge-fund job by a fellow Princeton grad, Jeffrey Preston Bezos. the one who is my mother. 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 supplement to the grievance, Smith wrote that Penns disciplinary procedures served to shelter the University from review of its role in encouraging the decisions for which it is now punishing her., Mackenzies social-work degree is still being withheld. If I look back at all the signs, at the days leading up to and proceeding my accident, she wrote, the signs all seem to point in the same direction. 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. Morrison petitioned the St. Louis County Circuit Court to expunge her arrest record. I just kind of crumbled behind the pressure, shesaid. Our customers can browse an electronic catalog of 1.4 million titles by author, title, subject, and keywords and place orders via computer. This is my #MeToo This is my story. Photograph by Robbie Lawrence for The New Yorker, Heres an apocryphal story that I figure prominently in., Can I help you find anything or prevent you from folding that shirt in such a way that I will immediately have to refold it?, I just hope the world doesnt end before people can see our outfits., Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us. Unlike Laurene Powell Jobss Emerson Collective or Ms. French Gatess Pivotal Ventures, Ms. Scott avoided establishing a website or advertising any contact information. She told me that she wished shed pushed back harder on the way she was characterized. Writing something long, she said in the 2013 television appearance, reflecting on Ms. Morrisons greatest lessons to her, is all about the timed release of information.. Mackenzies parents had separated when she was six, and Mackenzie lived with her mother, Carrie Morrison, the director of breast imaging and mammography at Mr. Jewett posted his own letter on Ms. Scotts Giving Pledge page. Ms. Scott was attending the Hotchkiss boarding school in Connecticut, while her older brother was at Georgetown University. In one scene, Luthers daughter and the undertakers son steal away during a wedding at the funeral home and kiss next to the rolling shelves for storing bodies.. Their gift was incredibly consequential, said Zach Silk, campaign manager of Washington United for Marriage, completely changing the scale of what had been a pretty scrappy but somewhat underfunded effort. During her free period at school, she roamed the halls looking for teachers who might be willing to chat. After Mackenzie had been in the hospital for a week, Brandt met Morrison at the police station and asked again about the circumstances of Mackenzies fall. The D.S.S. In another letter, Mackenzies lawyers argued that she had not constructed a narrative about herself to deceive anyone, but instead had tried to build a new identity after a trauma that had made her question nearly every aspect of her life. At the end of the interview, she offered to connect Mackenzie with support. In April, 2021, six days before Mackenzie gave up the Rhodes Scholarship, she got a letter from Penns Office of Student Conduct (O.S.C.) ), On Medium, she was writing in the language of equity and social justice, guiding philosophies for her giving. I wish that I had the courage to tell someone. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 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. Normal! In addition, she would have to take a mandatory leaveto get needed counseling and supportbefore the university would grant her M.S.W. WebHer father is Mike Morrison. 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. But then, then theres a writer out there named MacKenzie and the profound pleasure of editing comes rushing back.. 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.. Over the past year, Ms. Scott has announced grants totaling $6.6 billion. barred her father from associating with any investment adviser for fraudulent, deceptive actions, shutting the door on an easy comeback for the familys fortunes. Mackenzies friend Kate Minorini told me, Mackenzies mom was using the Whitfield buzz bookthe school directoryto plead her case, so the rumor mill would have happened regardless, but a lot of the hearsay seemed to be based off the defense arguments of our classmates dad. There were rumors that Mackenzies bruises were self-inflicted, that she had thrown herself down the stairs to get attention. We read, you know, enumerable books on the difficult child, the spirited child, the willful child, she said. Walter Licht, the faculty director of the program, described Mackenzie as the sort of student who asks a question that makes everyone stop and brings the quality of conversation to a different pitch. The Civic Scholars were encouraged to analyze how their identities intersected with systems of oppression and privilege. When concerns were initially raised about her first-generation status, Mackenzie had e-mailed the associate director of admissions and recruitment at Penns social-work school to ask how former foster youth should answer the question. Promotion and public events also did not come easily to Ms. Scott. At an alumni event in the Bay Area in late January 2020, shortly before the pandemic sent America into lockdown, Mr. Jewett stole the show with his humor and enthusiasm, as the alumni magazine put it, and improbably won the crowd over with a joke about trigonal planar molecules.. She was invited for an interview at a hedge fund, D. E. Shaw. I could tell that she was embarrassed, and she didnt want to be a burden, Cannon said. Ms. Scotts father ran an investment advising firm called J. Baker Tuttle Corporation, which by her teenage years was paying him about $360,000, or over They didnt respond, though Mackenzies biological mother has denied the allegations of abuse. The university, in its response to Mackenzies lawsuit, referred to Mackenzies mother as an accomplished physician and claimed that a court had found her allegations not to be credible. Her mother told her that it was an accident, saying, Im flattered that he got me mixed up with my 15-year-old daughter. In the year since the episode, Mackenzie said, Lovelace had continued to sexually assault her. investigator, Mackenzie, and her mother. If there were causes she supported but did not want the world to know about, she could simply choose not to include them in the Medium post. community or all three. An ambulance was called, and Mackenzie was taken to Mercy Hospital, in St.Louis, and admitted into the pediatric intensive-care unit. People who had once supported her were finding excuses to turn their backs or walk away., Mackenzie moved into a second foster home, because the first was chaotic; while she was there, the other foster child had attempted suicide. It was a pretty emotional conversation, because of her fear that, if she did get the scholarship, there would be press, and her bio family could find her and tear her down, Cannon said. Morrisons name was entered into a state registry for perpetrators of abuse and neglect. 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. When she got home, a caseworker was at her house, chatting with her mother. I didnt even know what to make of it. During conversations with her mother in the kitchen, she made sure to keep the kitchen island in between us, while also bracing for impact. She thought about running away, but she didnt have anywhere to go. The total amount of grants she was announcing came to $1.7 billion. and Y.M.C.A. A consulting physician said that Mackenzie most likely fell down the steps at home and hit her head. He observed, She appears scared., In the months since her head injury, Mackenzie had regained memories from the weekend before her fall, and she recalled that she and her mom had been fighting about Lovelace. interviewed Morrison in a waiting room of the hospital. If the U.S. Attorneys Office is getting their information from general counsel at the University of Pennsylvania, he told me, they might act differently based on where they are getting that tip, and there is no quick way out of a federal criminal prosecution.. Our greatest desire is that Mackenzie chooses to live a happy, healthy, honest, and productive life, using her extraordinary gifts for the highest good. (The Post Mackenzie Fierceton (@MFierceton) March 28, 2022 His mother was also a refined radiologist. 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 Im telling my story because I think its a microcosm of how institutions of power can manipulate truth, she told me. Three decades after worrying about making rent, and even in the wake of her recent gifts, Ms. Scott, 52, has a net worth that hovers around $50 billion, according to Forbes magazine. They rented a house in nearby Bellevue, Wash., where Amazon was founded in the garage in 1994. 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.. Brandt read Mackenzies diary and interviewed her principal, her soccer coach, and her teachers. He had died. I dont remember, but I was told I drove, Mackenzie said. Not only did she support his dream, she worked alongside him to build the company. One of Mackenzies professors, Anne Norton, who teaches political science, checked in on students who she suspected might be stranded. Because if Im being honest, there are things that Im too ashamed to even speak of., Mackenzie began documenting her life with her mother and her mothers boyfriend, Henry Lovelace, Jr., a personal trainer who had won the Missouri Strongest Man Championship in his weight group. Thinking about existing in a world where I had no parents just couldnt be a possibility in my mind, she told me. And unlike with Bystander Revolution, she was front and center. Mike Morrison Mikes passion centers on developing leaders at all ages, from the This girl is traumatized. The $12 billion in grants she has announced add up to more than the total lifetime giving of the late Eli Broad and his widow, Edythe, renowned for their generosity in Los Angeles, not to mention far richer couples, like Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. But something unusual happened. Brandt wrote, The only thing she can think is Mackenzie did this to herself. When Brandt asked why Mackenzie would accuse her of such a thing, Morrison replied, I guess she has more problems than I thought. Brandt placed Morrison under arrest. She lies better than I can tell the truth.. Like the child riffling through the botany book for plant species, she reached out to a plumber to understand her protagonists home repairs and spent time with an engineer to grasp the details of his work building dams. Well, you could tell them apart, right?. After you talked to the school. Ms. Scott found herself juggling waiting tables and writing, staying for a stint in the New York City apartment belonging to the family of her friend from Hotchkiss, Ms. Bass. He was not able to provide a direct answer, she later wrote. Mr. Bezos wanted to quit his job at D. E. Shaw to take a flier on selling books over the primitive dial-up version of the internet. In 2011, Mr. Bezos and Ms. Scott donated $15 million to Princeton for a center to study the brain. 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. Carrie Morrison Mackenzies biological mother had graduated from college and was a successful doctor. Her first big statement as a newly single woman came less than five months later on the website of the Giving Pledge, started by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett as a place where billionaires promised to give away at least half their wealth. Annie Korzen and Now a Nobel laureate, Ms. Morrison connected her own powerful agent, Amanda Urban, with her mentee and even gave her a coveted blurb for the cover of the book. Ms. Scotts parents, Jason Baker Tuttle and Holiday Tuttle. I was young, and I didnt know how you support somebody whose family is going through a hard time.. Shortly after a reporter appeared at those addresses seeking comment last month, Ms. Scott published her latest missive on Medium, announcing another $3.86 billion in gifts, and returning to her practice of noting the total dollar value of her gifts. Mackenzie Fierceton was championed as a former foster youth who had overcome an abusive childhood and won a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. The firm was covering his personal and business expenses, as well as four mortgages on three properties. The universitys pleading portrayed Mackenzie as a discredited person who cannily concocted a tale of abuse: as a child, she had regular temper tantrums, beyond the normal range for an adolescent. Then she had claimed to fall ill at school and presented a fictitious account of abuse by her mother. According to the pleading, her claims of abuse kept her family muzzled, leaving her in control of her narrative., Four days after the response was filed, the Chronicle published its article, giving ample weight to each side and quoting from the universitys pleading. 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. And Ms. Scott changed her author bio on the Amazon website to read: She lives in Seattle with her four children and her husband, Dan. Mr. Jewetts Twitter page abruptly vanished, leaving behind ghostly traces of an account where colleagues had bantered with him about science. You describe an experience, Winkelstein said. The week after the meeting, Winkelstein sent a letter to the Rhodes Trust expressing concern that Mackenzie (whose birth name and place of birth she got wrong) may have misrepresented her childhood. This writer that I admired so much also turned out to be such a gifted and devoted teacher, Ms. Scott said. As many other working students have found before her (and, with soaring tuition costs, even more since) it wasnt easy. By most measures the worlds largest charitable foundation, Gates made those grants with a staff of over 1,700 employees. A spokesperson for his office said that new evidence had been uncovered. Ms. Tuttle has been actively involved in a womens group associated with St. Edwards Roman Catholic Church, where the Kennedy family was once known to attend Mass, and Mr. Tuttle has served on the board of directors for the couples condominium association in a gated community with a golf course in West Palm Beach. 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. She thought it was funny that [Lovelace] mistook herMorrisonfor a 15 year old girl, Brandt wrote. They dated for three months before getting engaged and were married three months after that. 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. Morrison continued, She was falling apart under the academic stresses at school and was exhausted, and I believe looking for an out.. Since Mr. Bezos and Ms. Scott joined the board, tax records show, the foundation has given away more than $300 million. Even her new last name, Scott, is one of her own choosing. When you are in foster care, your legal guardian is the state, Mackenzie responded, according to the reconstruction. It was the local dentist who offered me free dental work when he saw me securing a broken tooth with denture glue in college, she said. Records show that Mr. Tuttle made a small contribution $25 to the Ron DeSantis campaign for Florida governor that year, while Mr. and Ms. Tuttle had each previously contributed $500 to the Republican National Committee. It says that your facial features are so distorted and swollen that I cannot tell them apartdid you write that? she asked. You never know where its going to end up. The two flew to Fort Worth, where they picked it up. The car was a Chevy Blazer, a gift from Mr. Bezos father. If we review your medical records, is it going to show broken ribs and injuries to your facial area?. Some people said that she had been inspired by the movie Gone Girl, about a woman who stages her own murder. 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. Mr. Jewett was the kind of teacher students appreciated, jovial in manner and serious about his subject. The chosen charities were told they could not announce the gifts until the donor did. O ne Monday morning in the fall of 2020, Mackenzie Fierceton received an email asking her to meet with Beth Winkelstein, deputy provost of the University of Im not a businessperson, but to me what I am hearing when he tells that idea is the passion and the excitement, Ms. Scott herself has said. Did she actually have something to do with it? In an e-mail, she said that Mackenzie would have to write a statement saying shed agreed to withdraw from the scholarship voluntarily and without pressure., Mackenzie rejected the offer. 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. Her degree will not be granted until she submits a letter of apology, a requirement imposed by an appeals panel. Nevertheless, strange packages were occasionally delivered to her dorm: a pair of sneakers, which she assumed came from Lovelace, who used to act as her personal trainer, helping her stretch; a bracelet with an inscription about finding the truth. After the caseworkers visit, Mackenzie was on high alert, trying not to set anyone or anything off, she wrote in her diary. On paper, Lost Horses headquarters are a law firm office in a downtown Seattle skyscraper and a tax firm in Los Angeles that handles family offices for high-net-worth individuals. Following that, her scholarship was forfeited and she lost her place in school. But, she said, I think they didnt want to make our school look bad, like we had missed anything when Mackenzie was with us. ), Three of the people who had written Mackenzie recommendations for the Rhodes composed new letters affirming that she had never misrepresented her life to them. 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. Her opaque methodology is the subject of regular hushed conversations in the nonprofit field. In an e-mail, an attorney for the D.S.S. Down-to-earth! ), Logan said that her lawyers did not want her to talk with me. 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