We have lots to celebrate—our talented students, our dedicated teachers, and our resilient community.
Join us for our own unique twist on an adults-only virtual event.
Carrie Malcolm | Longtime Cooke parent and advocate
Cooke Faculty | For guiding and educating our students through crisis and uncertainty
Help us celebrate the students, teachers and strong community that make Cooke our Constant. With your support, Cooke kids can thrive! We hope this event will entertain and inspire.
Here are some of the highlights:
Event kickoff: a cocktail-making segment from Chef Ayesha Nurdjaja of Shuka! After the year we have all been through, who doesn’t need a cocktail?
Highlights: Our fabulous teachers and parents will share stories from this past year—both challenges and successes! There will be a Faculty Q&A, video highlights from our fantastic dramatic arts team, and a lively fundraising session to support Cooke programming.
Focus on Students: As always, the reason we do any of this, is to benefit our students’ education. We hope you will join us for this special night…IN!
Tech Specs:
No specialized software is needed to tune in and stream our event; use any computer or smart device you prefer, but we recommend a computer (using Chrome browser) for the best viewing experience. You can also stream to your TV for group viewing.
1) Go to: virtualfundraiser.net/cooke
No code or password is needed.
2) Type in some basic info about yourself on the video player to let us know you have arrived. The stream will begin once you submit this info.
This is a cameras-off, live-streamed event.
React to the event in real time with other community members through the streaming page’s chat box (or through a festive selfie: @CookeSchoolNYC #SupportCooke).
Feel free to share the link to this event—we’ve opened up the event to family and friends of the entire Cooke community. All are welcome!
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Carrie Malcolm grew up in New York and received a BA in English Lit from the University of California at Berkeley. After living in northern California for several years, she returned to New York, where she started her career and her family.
After the birth of her son Ian, and following a trip to Cambodia, Carrie and her husband Michael, adopted their second child from Cambodia. Alessandra Sokna Malcolm came home to NY at the age of six months, in October 2001. The Malcolm family remained connected to Cambodia and have visited as a family several times throughout Ian & Aly’s childhood.
In 2002 Carrie started her own firm, CRM Management LLC, which provides financial services to filmmakers, actors and writers, as well as several family offices. In addition to being a Cooke supporter, Carrie serves on the Boards of the New York Women’s Foundation, the Atlantic Foundation, the Alex Fund, and is active in several community organizations in Cambodia.
Carrie lives in lower Manhattan now with Ian, Aly and their dog Gyatso. She is grateful to have had the constant support of the Cooke School and community throughout this incredible journey with Aly.
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Cooke Faculty[showhide type=”bio2″ more_text=”Read Full Bio” less_text=”Hide Bio”] Here at Cooke, we have the best faculty that any school could hope for! From building leadership teams to paraprofessionals, community inclusion assistants to related service providers, teachers of all kinds to nursing staff — we have an amazing staff whose dedication is second to none.
Over the last year, they showed over and over how flexible, creative, loving, practical and tirelessly committed they were. They wrote new lesson plans, created new teaching platforms, collaborated with parents and multi-tasked and proved that what seemed impossible, was indeed, possible!
Through their gracious dedication, our students flourished! On May 20, we honor our faculty. We honor their partnership with our families, and all the little (and big) ways they support students. Through their strength, students were reminded that they were connected to each other, and to the Cooke community through bonds that could not be broken. [/showhide]
The time has come to share the secret ingredients that you’ll need to make Shuka’s signature Watermelon Margarita. To kick off our event, Chef Ayesha Nardjaja will show us how she creates this delicious masterpiece—which can be enjoyed as either a cocktail or a mocktail!
Here’s what you’ll need:
(5) 1″ Chunks Watermelon
0.75 oz Simple Syrup
1 oz Lime Juice
1 Pinch Salt
1 Pinch Ground Black Pepper
2 oz Reposado Tequila (or your tequila of choice)
How to Make Paprika Salt
Legacy giving is very important to Cooke’s sustainability. Please contact Michael Eaton at Advancement@Cookeschool.org for more information.
Through the Affinity Membership Program, TD Bank will make an annual contribution to Cooke School based on the activity of all participating members’ TD Bank accounts.
Eligible accounts include:
Checking – Business & Consumer
Savings
Money Market
Certificate of Deposit
Retirement
If you are already a TD Bank customer, please visit any one of their locations and ask to have your balances included as part of the Cooke’s Affinity Membership Program (code: A1923).
Please see the Affinity Membership Program flyer for more information.
