St. Mark’s School in Southborough, MA, has named the fellowships in its new University of Pennsylvania Independent School Teacher Residency Program in honor of alumnus and Hinckley Allen partner Malcolm Farmer III for his commitment to civil rights and the mission of the school program.
The Farmer Penn Fellowships will be part of St. Mark’s larger Antiracism Action Plans and will recruit faculty of color for these fellowships in an effort to increase the number of candidates of color who make a career in independent school education.
Of the honor, Farmer said,
“I give all credit to St. Mark’s School for its successful effort to be selected in the highly competitive national process as one of the schools that will partner with the University of Pennsylvania GSE’s highly regarded innovative Independent School Teaching Residency Program. I am extremely grateful to St. Mark’s for providing me with the personally rewarding opportunity to support this important part of the school’s strong and long standing commitments to community and equity and its Antiracism Action Plan.”
Farmer, a 1957 graduate of St. Mark’s and partner at Hinckley Allen, has long been a passionate advocate for children and civil rights. In 1965, Farmer went to Mississippi with the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee and spent two years providing legal assistance, representing local civil rights organizations and local Black citizens in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama.
