Deerfield students Mark Chung ’21, Gabriella Hu ’21, Harry Niles ’21, Angela Osei-Ampadu ’21, and Eric Wang ’21 have teamed up to form Shielding Our Defenders: an organization that is sourcing and suppling medical-grade masks to New York City hospitals. The students have solicited donations to purchase masks and donated them to various hospitals in the US. So far, they have shipped over 1,320 FDA-approved masks to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx and NYU Langone. Their efforts were featured on Bronx News 12 yesterday. Bravo Mark, Gabriella, Harry, Angie, and Eric! 

Learn more and support this initiative at https://www.shieldingourdefenders.org and follow on Instagram @shieldingourdefenders.

Please watch this video announcement from Head of School Dr. John Austin regarding Spring Term.

Congratulations to Angela Osei-Ampadu ’21 who won the 2020 New England Girls Wrestling Championship to become the first female New England Champion in Deerfield history!

The Deerfield community congratulates Dr. Mark Ott on being appointed as the new Headmaster of The Windsor School, a boarding and day school in the Bahamas.

While at Deerfield, Mark served as Chair of the English Department and coached football, alpine skiing, basketball, and track, while serving in a broad range of areas of school leadership initiatives in academic affairs, curriculum design, admissions, and the recruitment and evaluation of faculty. 

A life-long educator, Mark has taught across the world at several distinguished institutions, including Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. 

Kyra Kocis ’16, a senior at Georgetown University, has been awarded a Marshal Scholarship to study social research methods and urban planning in the United Kingdom this fall. She will pursue two master’s degrees in social science research and urban policy. Her research currently focuses on the social ramifications of technological modernization within the industrial textile cluster of hand block printers in Jaipur, India

Kocis worked as a research assistant for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Strengthening State Capacity to Deliver Public Goods for Health, Bihar, India” project, and has achieved several academic distinctions while at Georgetown, including the STIA Honors Thesis Program and the Krogh Honors Scholars program in partnership with the U.S. State Department’s Multilateral Moneyball project. She also received a SFS Improving Human Conditions Grant and was a Georgetown Social Innovation for Public Service Fund recipient.

The sixth annual TEDxDeerfield will take place this Saturday, February 15, beginning at 3:30 pm. All talks are free and open to the public—please join

Former Deerfield Academy Wilson Fellow and author Jaed Coffin will visit campus on Tuesday, February 11 to read from his new book, Roughhouse Friday, and

The Deerfield community congratulates alumnus and the Academy’s current Assistant Head of School for Strategy and Planning David Thiel ’91 on being named Tilton School’s