It did not escape notice at the Ford Foundation, for instance, that more than half the groups she had given to were among its grantees. ), On Medium, she was writing in the language of equity and social justice, guiding philosophies for her giving. 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. He was informing friends, he told them at the time, because the news was about to come out in the tabloids. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. I helped organize a storytelling event for a friends church at a board and care institute, where [I met] Mackenzie Morrison, the daughter of the church lady who To be fair, I was using Penn, tooit gave me economic and social capital, Moore said. Lisa Smith, her friends mother, recalled that, whenever Mackenzie stayed at her house, she would meticulously clean stuff. Attempts to reach Ms. Scott and her husband, Dan Jewett, a chemistry teacher, for this article by phone, email and letter, directly and through intermediaries, were met with silence. These stories attract attention, in part because they offer comfort that, at least on occasion, such things happen. Forbes in January calculated that he had paid out $2.1 billion in charitable giving so far. Mackenzie is living proof of the parent coaching style in the book. 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. That clamor may have driven Ms. Scotts already discreet operation further underground, with recent philanthropic announcements akin to sudden lightning bolts for unsuspecting recipients. She worked on a toy drive for the children of farmworkers and on fund-raisers for breast cancer. At Mackenzies request, Penn had not listed her contact information in its online directory. She was trying so hard to please, to get acceptance. At Penn, Mackenzie began to realize, Oh, I actually have no idea who I am., When Mackenzie had applied to Penn, the universitys automatic coding system had categorized her application as first generation, because she had not filled in personal data about her biological parents. A detective named Carrie Brandt had been planning to follow up with Mackenzie at school that day, but instead she came to the hospital. A few days later, Mackenzie received an e-mail asking her to meet with Winkelstein, the deputy provost, to address questions that had arisen from an anonymous source. Sensing her mothers involvement, Mackenzie asked a university staff member to attend the meeting as her informal adviser. Mike Morrison Mikes passion centers on developing leaders at all ages, from the WebView the profiles of people named Mackenzie Morrison. She was MacKenzie Scott, the novelist upending philanthropy. At the end of the interview, she offered to connect Mackenzie with support. The couple traveled to Florida in May 2018 for a glitzy celebration of Ms. Scotts parents 55th wedding anniversary. Within a half hour, police officers arrived at the hospital. I envy her because shes so important.. In 2004, the couple joined the board of the Bezos Family Foundation, a charitable vehicle of Mr. Bezos parents, who became extraordinarily rich in their own right from their early infusions of capital into the fledgling Amazon.com. Even her new last name, Scott, is one of her own choosing. He was not able to provide a direct answer, she later wrote. Meet Mother Father and Radiologist Parents Mackenzie Fiercetons mother works as a radiologist and was raised in an upper-middle-class family. Probably not., She was interviewed for the hedge-fund job by a fellow Princeton grad, Jeffrey Preston Bezos. She wrote, DNA doesnt make a family. When asked to respond to what I want most, she replied, To have a family of my own someday and to be a great mom., Whitfield gave Mackenzie a full scholarship for her senior year. The kind of philanthropy portrayed in The Testing of Luther Albright resembles the sort practiced by her mother, Holiday Tuttle. 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. She was ashamed to tell people that shed been in foster care; she felt so alone that she thought about dropping out. 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. During her free period at school, she roamed the halls looking for teachers who might be willing to chat. 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. With the help of a scholarship, Ms. Scott still managed to go to Princeton, albeit with a new, heavier burden. I still just dont understand why she wont protect me, Mackenzie wrote. My mom, Mackenzie responded. 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. Some Penn professors have wondered if Mackenzies role in the lawsuit might have bearing on the universitys scrutiny of her credibility. The luminaries in attendance at the anniversary party, aside from Mr. Bezos and Ms. Scott, were of a decidedly right-wing bent. I wish that I had the courage to tell someone. Ambassador to Germany, a position she began last month, and Winkelstein had been promoted to interim provost. She explained she was helping her daughter remove gum from hair when Schneider told me, We wanted to document everything, because we were, like, This is a pattern. . She gave big. 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. Her case was referred to a panel of three faculty members in the social-work school. Join Facebook to connect with Mackenzie Morrison and others you may know. Norton said, I told Mackenzie, You dont have to spend any time with us if you dont want to, but you need to be safe.. Mr. Bezos and Ms. Scott in 2018, the year before the couple divorced. It was bad, she said. They had a baby boy at 16 and then got In California, Ms. Tuttle had worked on fund-raisers for a museum and a private school as well as volunteering to save the trees. Its about trying to construct a common life together. Occasionally, Mackenzie has a painful longing for the mother she remembers as a young child, but it is not her that I am grieving, she said. Fendell told her that, if she couldnt talk about why she was injured, she should write it down. Commentary was overwhelmingly positive, but philanthropy experts raised significant questions. Anea Moore, then a sophomore, had helped found the group the previous year. But something unusual happened. She petitioned a circuit court in St. Louis to remove her from the registry, arguing that the boards finding was based on insufficient evidence and would compromise her employment. At one point, as she approaches the bodyguards car, Jessica thinks, She will not try to influence this womans opinion. Its a funny thing about the truth. She was 23 and he was 29. Mackenzie testified that her mother had pushed her down the stairs and that, after she had fallen, my mom was on top of me and she was striking me in the face. One of the next things she remembers is waking up in her bedroom early the next morning. She just bursts out laughing, Mackenzie wrote. No one wants to offend her, but the choices can appear capricious. She was invited for an interview at a hedge fund, D. E. Shaw. A small team led by a recent Princeton graduate helped produce video testimonials by a range of public figures, including Monica Lewinsky and the actor Jared Leto. 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. 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. Ms. Scott and Mr. Bezos began to make their own forays into the charitable world. The Trust determined that, in Mackenzies medical records, there is no reference to dried blood, distorted facial features, or cessation of breathing. The report also pointed to inconsistent descriptions of the length of time Mackenzie had spent in foster care. According to Mackenzie, Logan, who had been pregnant when her husband died, asked her to meet. Rachel Webb, one of Mackenzies teachers from elementary school, said that Morrison left a message on her voice mail. In it she seemed to address the contradictory urges of preserving privacy while commanding attention for the causes she supported. 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. The week before, she had started work at an investment firm, with her future husband, Mr. Bezos. 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. Although all criminal charges against Morrison had been dropped, the D.S.S., which has its own procedures for assessing guilt, substantiated Mackenzies allegations. She started writing a journal about her life with her mother and her boyfriend, Brandt later noted that Morrison had not asked how Mackenzie was doing or showed any emotion., Brandt also asked Morrison about the episode, which Mackenzie had reported the day before, when Mackenzie had woken up to Lovelace touching her breasts. Mr. Bezos later said he would find her writing in hotel bathrooms when he woke up on vacation. Nobody fits into a certain mold or stereotype, just like I do not, she wrote. Oh Luther, Liz answers. 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. Norton, with whom Mackenzie had been living for nearly a year, told me, I cannot avoid the sense that Mackenzie is being faulted for not having suffered enough. Mackenzie said that her college counsellor had told her that, as an independent student estranged from her family, this information was not required. When you are in foster care, your legal guardian is the state, Mackenzie responded, according to the reconstruction. (She also spent long stretches sleeping at friends houses.) In a letter to herself, an exercise assigned to all the scholars, Mackenzie wrote, I know that my first 18 years on this planet will always be a part of who I am, but how do I move on and start this new chapter of my life without pretending like it never happened?, Elizabeth Cannon, the senior associate director of Civic House, where the program is based, sensed that Mackenzie was more vulnerable than she acknowledged. In 2018, Forbes magazine named Mr. Bezos the richest man in the world, bringing a new level of attention and scrutiny on him, on his company and, by extension, on her. Ms. Scott did not have a foundation that would have to file detailed tax returns. But institutions used different definitions of the term; one study analyzed eight definitions of first-generation commonly used by researchers and found that, in a sample of more than seven thousand students, those who qualified as first-generation ranged from twenty-two to seventy-seven per cent, depending on which definition was used. By most measures the worlds largest charitable foundation, Gates made those grants with a staff of over 1,700 employees. Her husband was by then one of the most famous men in America, but he was best known at the time for destabilizing the staid publishing industry to the detriment of local bookstores. In her final year, she took on extra coursework, completing a special seminar in fiction-writing arranged by the head of the English department that ensured she met the schools four-year English requirement. Ms. Scotts first book, The Testing of Luther Albright, based in part on her undergraduate thesis about Luther Augery, took her close to a decade to complete. Mackenzie had been invited to a pre-orientation program for first-generation and/or low-income (F.G.L.I.) Her fathers financial firm declared bankruptcy, and so did her parents. And this next question may be tough. Then, she drove them to Seattle while Mr. Bezos worked on the business plan in the passenger seat. The Giving Pledge is a public promise and little more. 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. Death: December 31, 2008 (80) Immediate Family: Son of John Morrison and Catriona Morrison. She will not work to project what she wants others to see (Kind! 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. When White learned that Mackenzie had been telling professors that she felt the university was threatening her, she added a new requirement. They asked how Mackenzie had been injured. She was a foster child, but not for long enough. Morrison denied that she had ever hit her daughter, whom she described as emotional and intense. Professional career. 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. 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. 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. Some of those approaches were from staff at the influential nonprofit consultancy Bridgespan, others from representatives at Lost Horse. Mackenzie also sent a note to Drivers widow, Roxanne Logan, offering to share the details shed gathered. Norton said, Mackenzie always tried to say, Im fine, Im fineafter she and her roommates gave up their apartment off campus, she lived with a roommates family in Ohio and then stayed at a classmates home in Philadelphiabut eventually it became clear she was just couch-surfing at friends houses, and you cant couch-surf in a pandemic. In late May, Norton invited Mackenzie, who had just graduated with a B.A. In April, 2021, an investigative subcommittee for the Rhodes Trust issued a report recommending that Mackenzies scholarship be rescinded. They are the people that support you, look out for you, & love you unconditionally. She went on, By those standards, the standards of real family, not one person Im related to by blood meets those requirements or even comes close., Still, she was sometimes hopeful that the kind face her mother presented could actually be real. Lisa Smith, the mother of Mackenzies friend, said that Morrison called and tried to be really sweet with me and get me to change my mind about what had happened, but when I said, Im not interested in hearing what you have to say, she got ugly. Once, at the airport, Smith ran into another Whitfield parent, who commented that Mackenzie wanted to go to an Ivy League school, and this was her way in. Smith said, I was, like, Youve got to be kidding me. (A hotline caseworker had notified the police.) In an interview, she described how she, too, had been a first-generation, low-income student.. Annie Korzen and ), Logan said that her lawyers did not want her to talk with me. God, I dont know, she wrote. However, an anonymous father reported that she belonged to a rich family and an investigation was put upon her. You have to become a caretaker. Moore didnt think it was right, for instance, that universities commonly closed many dorms and cafeterias during the holidays, leaving vulnerable students feeling displaced. 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. Carrie Morrison Mackenzies biological mother had graduated from college and was a successful doctor. And as a recent college graduate, working in recruitment at a financial firm, she married the man in the office next to hers, Jeff Bezos, and moved to Seattle to help him pursue his dream of an online retail empire one that would make each of them among the wealthiest people in the world even after their marriage dissolved. (Her fine was withdrawn, because the universitys charter says that financial restitution cannot be imposed in cases involving academic integrity.) 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. A man who appeared to be a security guard at an address linked to another shell company in an affluent corner of Seattle said, Theyre not available at the moment.. In an e-mail, an attorney for the D.S.S. Ms. Scott with Jeff Bezos, her husband from 1993 to 2019. They liked to imagine themselves as the Gilmore Girls: the single mother and her precocious daughter, so close they were nearly fused. And in her, Korzen sees a sense of belonging that shes never felt. In keeping with the absolute secrecy surrounding Lost Horses operations, there is no nameplate in the lobby and the slim rectangular window on the Lost Horse floor is papered over. I could tell that she was embarrassed, and she didnt want to be a burden, Cannon said. There are 30+ professionals named "Mackenzie Morrison", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. She was removing the spectacle from the proceedings. 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. student organization. In August, 2020, Logan filed a lawsuit, asserting that her husbands death was owing to system-wide logistical and structural failures created by the negligence and recklessness of the university. 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. She Soon, representatives from Lost Horse were calling nonprofits around the country about multimillion-dollar donations from an anonymous giver. White, upper middle class, and in a position of power, Mackenzies mother was demographically dissimilar to most parents who come to the agencys attention. An essay by Toni Morrison: The Work You Do, the Person You Are.. And ultimately you say it was your mother. Her friend Stephen Damianos, who had just been chosen for the scholarship, had told her she would be an ideal candidate. Kitty Bennett contributed research. I dont remember, but I was told I drove, Mackenzie said. Thats what scares me about this case. WebHer father is Mike Morrison. You should know that I dont feel I got there, she wrote to Ms. Morrison in 2000. Ms. Scotts parents, Jason Baker Tuttle and Holiday Tuttle. She broke me. She concluded, I was never broken. Im telling my story because I think its a microcosm of how institutions of power can manipulate truth, she told me. They take us where we need to go.. Lee informed Mackenzie that the tube was plastic. If we review your medical records, is it going to show broken ribs and injuries to your facial area?. Universities began looking for other ways to encourage diversity. El-Fahmawi told me, I was genuinely worried and surprisedshe was completely on her own., During her sophomore year, Mackenzie decided to apply for a masters at Penns school of social workshe could begin the program while completing her undergraduate degreebecause she wanted to help young people who had aged out of foster care. Shortly before the pandemic hit, the chemistry teacher Dan Jewett took on a delicate, sometimes unpopular task. 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. studentan abbreviation that may invite confusion, because it can refer to people who are either low-income or first-generation, not necessarily both. She took a sip of water and began crying. Through her high school graduation in 2017, 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. Mackenzie told the hospital staff that she didnt remember what had happened. Our customers can browse an electronic catalog of 1.4 million titles by author, title, subject, and keywords and place orders via computer. By the early 1990s, her parents had left behind their two houses in California and transplanted themselves to Florida, settling in an apartment building in Palm Beach where at the time units rented for around $800 a month, or roughly $1,500 today. 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 Fierceton's mother is a radiologist, and she was raised in an upper-middle-class household. She achieved her goal of studying creative writing under Ms. Morrison, who had recently won the Pulitzer Prize. had considered placing her with one of Morrisons sisters, but the Whitfield principal had called the D.S.S. She was working multiple jobs, and she owned almost no personal or material items, she said. In the tweet, she added in a parenthetical: (Note my Medium account is under my new last name changed back to middle name I grew up with, after my grandfather Scott. In addition to having an excellent academic record, Mackenzie was a policy fellow for a Philadelphia City Council member, a volunteer birthing doula with the Philadelphia Alliance for Labor Support, and a social-work intern at the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. 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. Normal! The billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott once recounted, in a television interview, a Chinese folk tale sometimes known as The Lost Horse. The story is about the reversals of fortune a farmer experiences after his prized stallion runs away. Why one chapter of the Y.M.C.A. Who Is Mackenzie Fierceton? She is poor, but she has not been poor for long enough. Im a Black woman, Im middle-aged, Im a single parent of a special-needs child, and I cant do anything that would jeopardize the lawsuit, she said. She said, You know meI would never hurt my beautiful girl. In addition, she would have to take a mandatory leaveto get needed counseling and supportbefore the university would grant her M.S.W. I am grieving the idea of herthe idea I had once created for her., Mackenzie told me that, in the past year, shes experienced a state of self-doubt that she hadnt known since high school: There have been moments of almost panic where I am just cognitively questioning myself, like, Did I misremember something? Its easy to slide back into that state, because I want anything other than the realitythat it is my bio family who has caused so much harmso I will do backflips to try to make it not true. In her high-school journal, she had described this cycle of doubt. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. In January, 2020, the winter of her senior year, she wrote in a Facebook post that the process of choosing a name had been about taking ownership of my identity and exerting agency in a way I was never able to growing up., Two months later, as COVID hit the Northeast, Penn urged students to leave campus within a week. 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. She is brilliant and can charm anyone, Mackenzie wrote. In January 2019, Ms. Scott and Mr. Bezos jointly announced on his Twitter account that they were divorcing. I wasnt quite ready to write a book. He could not afford it, she wrote, pretending he had a job that made money and also pretending he could spend it., Ms. Morrison, who died in 2019, called Ms. Scott an extraordinary writer, almost full-blown, and indeed the novella is strikingly assured, as well as a little bloody, macabre and almost Gothic in places. WebDecember 13, 1928. Thinking about existing in a world where I had no parents just couldnt be a possibility in my mind, she told me. She was five feet ten with long curly blond hairthe picture of Americana, as one friend described her. 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. She had not seen her mother in private since the day she was hospitalizeda court had ordered family therapy, but Mackenzie was terrifiedand had no financial support from her family. 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