And its mentioned briefly. And I dont remember exactly what their statement was, but they disputed it. That was my personal statement. After her mother left, Fierceton got out of bed, found a spare set of keys and drove herself to school. Our concern is instead with the conduct of our. Also, there was a delay in getting the Penn Police there because they didnt know where the building was. And theyll openly talk about this. It was literally just like: She was arrested and her daughter is hospitalized. RG: And The New Yorker article also alluded to a few things that you had gotten loose with in a couple of paragraphs. (Photo from Mackenzie Fierceton) Penn student Mackenzie Fierceton was selected as one of 32 American recipients of the 2021 Rhodes Scholarship, becoming Penn's 31st Rhodes scholar since the scholarship's inception in 1902.. Fierceton, a 2020 College graduate, is currently working on her . So now Im looking at one American city and one English city and comparing the experiences of youth who crossed over from the child welfare system to the criminal justice system in both of those cities and kind of how the geopolitical environment and local policies and practices might impact the rate of youth crossing over and their experiences.Then its going to be a qualitative study in just really trying to understand their experiences from their voices, which is something that I often find missing from research. And, in this case, almost everyone who was involved in the university administration are upper middle class or very wealthy, highly academically educated white women. I took photos of the building and sent it to them, and I was connecting them with different people who were in my class, who were in his class. RG: Did they make that threat in writing or was that . And in the U.S., there is much more pressure to pull kids out of homes, right? In her reading, Tracy came across an article that congratulated Mackenzie Fierceton, a University of Pennsylvania graduate, on being named a Rhodes Scholar. She chose Fierceton from a list of names she had come up with herself that projected strength, and a petition to the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia was accepted. She had had a fairly upper middle class life yet was working at multiple fast food restaurants and barely getting by. But in this application they had two questions which are to determine financial aid. Yeah. [7] The charges against Lovelace were dropped later for lack of evidence. She was an independent student when she applied. Mackenzie Fierceton (born Mackenzie Terrell on August 9, 1997; later Mackenzie Morrison,[1]:6364,86) is an American activist and graduate student currently studying at Oxford University. So I felt pretty confident. Picture: University of Pennsylvania/Instagram. RG: And all of us, no matter what our situation, are not completely safe from it. What about Rhodes? This is derived from language in the federal Higher Education Act, which ties first-generation status to the educational attainment of the parent the student "regularly resides with and receives support from". Penn's report notes that Fierceton disputes this account. In The New Yorker article, one teacher had written: She showed up at my classroom door with a bloodied and battered face and then fainted., RG: And then, Rachel Aviv, the reporter also quotes Sherry McClain, who was a nurse who was assigned to you, she said: She had two black eyes, and her hair was full of blood. And back in high school, it was a similar thing. Because thats not how we understand poverty. In between those placements, she slept at friends' houses for long periods. But I guess I cant say for sure. She is a student who found herself in a complex and easily-misunderstood situation: working towards her degree without support from family. Mackenzie Morrison was born Mackenzie Terrell but took her mother's name after her father, Billy Terrell, who worked in soap operas, left. How many people kind of fit that category that you interacted with, and how many kind of fit closer to your category, not just in your own interactions, but also in your research? And I turned over all this information to his widow. [2], Fierceton supplied the trust's investigators with her medical and court records from the mid-2010s as well as letters from 26 peopleteachers at Whitfield, the three Penn faculty members who had written her Rhodes recommendation letters, vouching for her abuse claims and saying she had never misrepresented herself. If you want to give us additional feedback, email us at [emailprotected] Thanks so much! Cause then you cant think that it could be you. His master's level university, Ivy College Pennsylvania, also failed to grant him the acquired master's degree . And at the time I was like: Why what? She ruined her moms career. For all the readers could have known, there could have been a videotape of it happening. Enough blood? Mackenzie Fierceton described herself as s a "queer,. They would not do so, however, if she agreed to withdraw from the scholarship, surrender the Latin honors that had accompanied her degree, and take a mandatory leave for "counseling and support" before receiving her master's. She told Brandt it was her mother, and asked her to keep Morrison from coming to her room. I think [its] called Penn First, I believe, and it seems like you socially spent a lot of time with them? Cause I had assumed it was her. 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. Why would I do that? It recommended the scholarship be rescinded. Fierceton was released after four days. And so was it later, in a different conversation where they asked about the line in the essay about not being able to recognize yourself or is there some illusion to that in the transcript that you found? Beth Winkelstein, at the time Penn's deputy provost, signed off on her application for the school, writing that "Mackenzie understands what it is like to be an at-risk youth, and she is determined to re-make the systems that block rather than facilitate success. Is it as well explored territory as a school-to-prison pipeline? It seemed like there was a lack of internal emergency protocols within our grad school, the School of Social Policy & Practice. She had begun to remember more about the incident, and while still not certain how it had happened recalled that before it she and her mother had been fighting about Lovelace. The New Yorker reported that Fierceton reported this to Penn's campus police, fearing that her mother had somehow found out where she was living. And what was the first-generation community like on campus? Or whatever our kind of contemporary version of it is. It quotes her as saying "If you find me dead, it was my mom. Not as something that is for the benefit of the MacKenzies, the people who were being brought into the school, but actually for the benefit of the university itself, its image and also for the students. If you speak, Im going to disconnect you from the call. RG: So how is a person who is filling out this application supposed to know what definition youre supposed to use? Yeah. But part of it is funding decisions. A University of Pennsylvania May graduate who is currently completing her master's degree at Penn has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford.. Penn's 2021 Rhodes Scholar is Mackenzie Fierceton from St. Louis, currently residing in Philadelphia. MF: And with that, like you said, notion of: Well, theres no way that you went to private school and all of this could have still happened, or that you could be low-income now and this idea that socioeconomic status is permanent. Penn, by questioning so much of Fierceton's story, was making itself "complicit in a long campaign of continuing abuse", she added. She was abused, but there is not enough blood." But now looking back and rereading that article in the last year and seeing that it virtually had no information. And we had a fairly lengthy conversation, just kind of going through the ins and outs of my childhood and left it at, she was like: OK, I understand now and Im just going to leave this. A former teacher in elementary school recalled that in one of those calls, Morrison made a reference to an earlier discussion of Fierceton's mental illness; the teacher did not remember any such conversation. Deconstructed[emailprotected]theintercept.com, Photo illustration: Soohee Cho for The Intercept; Getty Images, AP, This weeks guest on Deconstructed is Mackenzie Fierceton, who was the subject of, The Philadelphia Inquirer erroneously wrote that she had grown up poor. [2], Fierceton was accepted at the University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn) on a full scholarship, arranged through QuestBridge. A trial was held in early 2019 at which she, Fierceton, a psychologist and a DSS investigator testified. RG: Right. The court granted Morrison a protection order against her former husband; Fierceton had no relationship with him from that time onward. So it makes some sense that they were very similar questions. I do think that it is a huge defense mechanism that people deploy. Youre engaged in a lawsuit with Penn. Fierceton wrote to SP2 dean Sara Bachman complaining about the interview, saying she felt "worthlessness, hopelessness, and shame" for a week afterwards. Fierceton grew up in a wealthy community and attended an elite private school in a St. Louis suburb. Thats not in question. There were definitely, Im sure. [2], The fine was later withdrawn after it was found to conflict with a provision of the university's charter prohibiting the imposition of fines in cases involving academic integrity. Nor is she obligated to meet their expectations of her. And then throughout the now a year and a half process [laughs] of different sort of invented processes that happened, eventually the university was like: OK, I guess shes low-income. [1]:111112, In her Intercept interview, Grim recounts how this was reported in The New Yorker and asks "So how is a person who is filling out this application supposed to know what definition youre supposed to use?" "[b] She considered running away but had a distant relationship with her father, and nowhere else she believed she could go. And I was the one who uncovered my classmates death. Now Im sobbing, Im hyperventilating, and the staff member interrupted and said: Can we have an estimate of how much time is left? [2], Shortly after the Rhodes investigation began, Rafaelle was informed that Penn was proposing to revoke Fierceton's bachelors on the grounds of her apparent self-misrepresentation. Her mother was a doctor and Fierceton attended a prep school, but she was. RG: Like questioning: How much blood? Who would hold party elites accountable to the values they proclaim to have? The Chronicle reports that although she spent her final year of high school in foster care, the student had grown up in an affluent suburb of St. Louis with her mother, a radiologist, and attended private schools. And at the time I was more in panic mode than like, let me step back and look at this logically, theres absolutely no case, this is an intimidation tactic to try to silence me and sign this NDA and withdraw from the Rhodes and agree to whatever terms they wanted me to agree to you. [22], In the New Yorker article, Fierceton and others criticized Penn for its use of not only her story but another recent FGLI Rhodes awardee as poverty porn, suggesting the university had turned on her when it learned she had actually come from a privileged, affluent background and thus did not fit the narrative of having grown up in foster care recounted in its news release and the accompanying Inquirer article. The dean of SP2 told Penn otherwise, but Fierceton noted that the school had never shared what its definition was. Yeah, it was, things like that where I simplified all of these foster kids that youre living with a biological family who have kids, which I would say are foster siblings. What happened the night before? And they were the ones I believe and this is public now because Penn attached it to their response to the lawsuit I filed and I believe they were the first ones to mention that I had gone to private school and that they were questioning if I was low-income. She had wanted to appeal the Rhodes committee's findings, but Rafaelle advised her that Penn had hinted to him that it might consider referring the matter to federal prosecutors on the grounds that she had lied about being FGLI on her Free Application for Federal Student Aid form. And the staff member saying like: I understand, can you please give Mackenzie an estimate of how many questions are left? Teen Mom alum Mackenzie Edwards' husband Ryan Edwards is to be arrested soon. Like, it seemed like an airtight case from my perspective. After the trial ended with Morrison prevailing and the agency ordered to remove her name from the child-abuse registry, Fierceton resolved to change her last name. Her junior year at Whitfield, a prestigious prep school, Mackenzie showed up to school one day in a terrible state. So normally the term FGLI, its just an umbrella term for both. There were so many there are, I guess I should say so many moving pieces. Our greatest desire is that Mackenzie chooses to live a happy, healthy, honest, and productive life, using her extraordinary gifts for the highest good." MF: She, to my knowledge, has stuck by that. And then theres also foster siblings in the sense of other people who are in the foster care system who youre living with. He explained that Morrison had had no prior criminal record, Fierceton's complaints about her mother's boyfriend and prescription drug abuse had been unsubstantiated, her cousin had witnessed no abuse while living with the Morrisons at a time prior to the incident, and he had learned that Fierceton "had regular temper tantrums, beyond the normal range for an adolescent". "We have concluded that there is a basis for serious concern and that further investigation by the Rhodes Committee may be appropriate", she wrote. RG: And do you know Linda Tirado? [2] Ruderman's story, published the next day, began:[13]. Mackenzie Fierceton was named Penn's 2021 Rhodes Scholar. Is that just an interpretation or did they say anything that suggested to you that the fact that you had gone to a private school and grown up in an upper-middle-class situation meant that you could never at any point consider yourself low-income? In addition it offered details of what its own investigation had concluded about Fierceton's childhood and adolescence that led OSC to believe it was likely that she had exaggerated or fabricated outright her claims about her mother. Or do you think that the wheels were already in motion before that? And then instantly people started picking her story apart. Like some students do have a story, more like me where they had some kind of separation from their family; other students their parents were doctors or lawyers or Ph.D. students in other countries, but then they came here and their degrees no longer, essentially, counted or people who are just first-generation and not necessarily low-income or people who are low-income, but not first-generation. So that was, I think later on that specific line came into question. "[2], Near the end of November Fierceton was named one of 32 Rhodes scholars from the U.S. for the year. Mackenzie Fierceton (born Mackenzie Terrell on August 9, 1997; later Mackenzie Morrison, [1] : 63-64, 86 ) is an American activist and graduate student currently studying at Oxford University. And I just want to read this for people. There were some pretty basic errors, such as my name, my birth name, and my birth place, and claiming that I didnt have a sibling, that I wasnt low-income, a lot of facts that were pretty easily disputed. And I was the one who uncovered my classmates death. And its no offense its not like the most profound . By those standards, the standards of real family, not one person I'm related to by blood meets those requirements or even comes close." There were some pretty basic errors, such as my name, my birth name, and my birth place, and claiming that I didnt have a sibling, that I wasnt low-income, a lot of facts that were pretty easily disputed. RG: so that people have the background there. She also called herself a first-generation low-income student. MF: Yeah. Her admission to Oxford was unaffected, and she began her graduate studies in sociology there later in the year, with a Penn professor covering her tuition. And I think said something along the lines of there were things missing and it was distorted. But those definitions arent anywhere to be found. [2][4][15], After learning this, Fierceton and a fellow SP2 student began doing research. [1]:111112, Penn's investigators asked Fierceton why she had pretended to be asking on another's behalf when she made her queries within the university. University of Pennsylvania student Mackenzie Fierceton had her Rhodes Scholarship revoked and her master's degree withheld after allegations surfaced that she was lying about her. And whats the difference between the U.S. and English system? This made Fierceton feel as if she were being watched for anything she did that could be used against the state's case by her mother. Thats been my understanding of it. Enough bruises? What was the response from the readers of the paper? "[2], On her application, Fierceton recounted her background and the unexpected way it led to her becoming a foster child. Doctors diagnosed her with epilepsy, telling her the head injuries that had resulted in her earlier hospitalizations may have been a contributing factor to her developing it. "It is seven years later, and I am still having to prove and prove and prove what has happened to me." But it was definitely something I saw happening sort of this funneling of kids from the child welfare to criminal justice system. The Intercept is an independent nonprofit news outlet. She, to my knowledge, has stuck by that. And then theres the part that felt like: I have no idea whats going to convince these people if I gave them medical records, I gave them forensic photos of me taken in the hospital, I gave them again like corroboration from professors of like how I described myself, from leaders in the FIGLY community. [1]:115 As to her previous involvement with the child welfare system, Penn says Fierceton told them she was not certain, but she was referring either to the guardian ad litem appointed for her during her parents' divorce or an earlier incident when she and her biological parents were still living in Connecticut. Raised in Chesterfield, Missouri, a West County suburb of St. Louis, she attended and graduated from the Whitfield School in Creve Coeur. "They are the people that support you, look out for you, & love you unconditionally. And thats again, like not because there isnt abuse or neglect going on in families that looked like mine, or biological families that looked like mine. And I asked in the email exchange: Is this about the anonymous email? Are we going to see these injuries? And so that was when it really transitioned, the second half of it, into these really intimate questions about my abuse until the point where I was sobbing and couldnt answer the questions anymore. She and a separate witness said records of child-welfare agencies from years earlier are not easy to obtain. And that dynamic, I would say, [laughs] probably played a big part in all of this. Rather than it being for the purpose of benefiting the students themselves. Are we going to see these injuries? First of all, thats one box? On Saturday afternoon, Fierceton said she found herself in a Zoom meeting for several hours with 10 other finalists from this region. Photograph by Robbie Lawrence for The New Yorker Mackenzie Fierceton grew up in a middle-class suburb of St. Louis. And so, just the immediate reaction was like: Theres no way. The wellness director told her she would have to notify the state's Department of Social Services (DSS) of the incident. Fine. Fierceton considered dropping out, but "if I truly can't do this, where am I supposed to return to? She has a bachelor's degree in political science from Penn and was working on a master's in social work. Theyre not on a website. You have a good education and youre clearly smart. The battle between her and the school was chronicled by Rachel Aviv in the New Yorker earlier this month. What kind of a group is that? Penn filed a 130-page response two weeks later, denying all her allegations of wrongdoing and saying that the university officials and co-defendants who had investigated the case were unaware of the Driver lawsuit when they did. And because you were not just low-income, actually no income, other than the jobs that you were working nobody has complained about the low-income one, right? But I got a bit of pressure from Penn to do that. Thank you so much for having me. [3] "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 said. I cant remember if it was in the Rhodes essay or in another essay that, in hindsight, you wouldve tightened up. [2], The next morning, when Fierceton awoke, Morrison told her she was taking her car keys and telling the school she was sick. And its funny, cause it just made me so frustrated and I actually went back and read it. Her mother was arrested and charged with child abuse, but those charges were later dropped; state courts later expunged the arrest and ordered her removed from the state's child-abuser registry. Nothing I have is persuasive to these people. Later in the year she wrote online that the name change gave her "ownership of her identity" and a sense of agency she had not had before in her life. At school, she began confiding about her situation with a history teacher, telling them about her mother's physical abuse. "I advised him that this was ridiculous, and this had to be a 'status thing", she said. But there was another definition that was also along those lines that I fit, that was, again, public on the website. Her mentor told Licht afterwards that "it felt like an attack on a student" and that she had never experienced anything like it. [2], Fierceton refused, and a week before she withdrew from the Rhodes Scholarship, Penn's Office of Student Conduct (OSC) notified Fierceton it, too, would be investigating. Fierceton described herself as a first-generation college applicant who came from a low-income, foster-care background. She helped SP2 assistant professor Toorjo Ghose draft and promote a petition in support of Police Free Penn, an activist group calling on the university to cut its ties with the Philadelphia Police Department over its poor relations with the largely black and Latin residents of the West Philadelphia neighborhoods around the university's campus, and rethink its own police department, the largest private one in the state. And then very quickly turn to very specific questions about different instances of abuse. Again following the advice of her college counselor, she did not identify her parents on her application, since she was estranged from both of them (she describes them both as "biological"[3][2]). I think [its] called Penn First, I believe, and it seems like you socially spent a lot of time with them? She entered foster care only at the age of 17, after making a complaint of abuse against Dr. Morrison a complaint that a court later found not to be credible. This definition resembles the one used in the federal Higher Education Act, which says that first-generation status depends on the education level of a parent whom a student regularly resided with and received support from.. And the chain of events that happened leading into foster care? And even now, The New Yorker quotes a lot from my childhood journals describing my abuse. RG: Rather than it being for the purpose of benefiting the students themselves. DSS had originally planned to place Fierceton with one of her mother's sisters but put her in foster care after Whitfield's principal warned the agency that Fierceton would not be safe with them. So thats the background of him. Mackenzie is currently suing the university. Like I just havent, really, there to be a lot of information about me publicly. Its, in my opinion, because they get overlooked and the kids like me are kind of rendered invisible by the privileges of our biological families. And is it somewhat of a defense mechanism that people deploy to protect themselves? This can happen to someone in my community. One of them, to me, felt pretty clear that it was probably from someone in my biological family, because it had photos of me; it had very specific information that very few people would have and I dont think many people would have random childhood photos of me. Fierceton. Right. How long were you in the hospital? Then the University of Pennsylvania accused her of lying. She had bruises all over her body in different stages of healing an obvious sign of child abuse., No, I found it before. RG: And one of the main things they pointed to was that she had gone to this private school . I reached out for a response to the University of Pennsylvania and also Provost Beth Winkelstein and General Counsel Wendy White for a response, as well as to Mackenzies biological mother. Fierceton's life story, as well as her self-identification as a "first generation" college student, came under scrutiny by the university when an anonymous email alleged that Fierceton was not. So you use what you have, uh, which are the definitions that were already out there. RG: Right. [2], Later that year, after that first foster home turned out to be "chaotic", with Fierceton's foster sibling attempting suicide, she moved to another one. The kind of reporting we do is essential to democracy, but it is not easy, cheap, or profitable. But Mackenzie Fierceton is not a liar. Or is that it separates two into one? And where are you at school? [2] They learned that SP2 had no real protocol for an emergency situation in the building. And where are you at school? A cousin who lived with the Morrisons for a while did not see any signs of abuse and believed it was possible Fierceton could have inflicted the injuries herself. The fact that they even challenged that really does expose a lot of whats going on here because I assume in their mind, theyre saying: Well, she went to this private school; she had a nice house; her mom probably drove a nice car maybe you even drove a decent car! And that feels like one of them where it feels like the system is willfully misunderstanding reality in order to bend it in their direction. Mackenzie Fierceton, C'20, has been awarded a 2021 Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. It was more, I think, in the times after and the months after where I ended up like giving different medical records and all of these things to corroborate my account, but there were a few questions that were very specific to what had happened. And Im glad that people are having the kinds of systemic discussions that are so key to all of this. [2], To White, Morrison repeated her story that her daughter had fabricated the abuse allegations. Mackenzie Fierceton grew up poor, cycling through the rocky child welfare system. How old were you when you were applying to college? It was: Shes a spoiled little brat. And eventually they filed a big wrongful death lawsuit in August 2020. Im part of a wrongful death lawsuit that was filed in August, 2020. Because that was one of the ones that really blew my mind. And I think I just share that because I think its a powerful example of if that is as far as theyre going to go when theres literal documentation from child me and that accusing me of that being faked, I really am like: I dont know, short of a video montage of instances of abuse from 6 to 16, what would convince them. And so can you talk a little bit about your research? MF: Yeah. How much research has been done on the foster-care-to-prison-pipeline? Both reports refrained from expressing an opinion about the truth of her abuse allegations. RG: And what was the first-generation community like on campus? And please go and leave us a rating or a review it helps people find the show. And youre getting instruction from a university official that that's how you're supposed to fill it out, that's what the definition says online. Ryan Grim: This weeks guest on Deconstructed is Mackenzie Fierceton, who was the subject of a recent story in The New Yorker. And if those things are true, and youre also struggling in poverty, then something is deeply wrong with the system. And we entered the meeting and it immediately felt really hostile to me. [2], In public, while she was at Whitfield, Morrison and her daughter seemed to evoke the Gilmore Girls, echoing that television series's main characters, a single mother and her precocious daughter with a close and strong relationship. Like, I dont have the precise statistics in front of me, but if you asked people to guess at the number of people who will experience, say, two years of poverty in their life, people will miss it by magnitudes. Or was the real issue that Fierceton did not really fit the profile of a suffering student who needed the benevolence of an Ivy League school?" Just like some basic questions [laughs] and then a lot of detailed questions about my application. So yes, I know that is me. 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