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.

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.