Miss Porter’s School

Ms. Martell Jenkin attended Fordham University, where she majored in math and minored in French, was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon, the national honorary math society, and received the Vincent Tobin Family Scholarship for excellence in mathematics. Ms. Martell Jenkin was also a founding member of Fordham's Mentoring Latinas program, a program dedicated to pairing a college student with a high school or middle school buddy from inner-city schools. After college, Ms. Martell Jenkin taught at Phillips Academy Andover in the Math and Science for Minority Students program before coming to Porter’s in 2010. At Porter’s, she has received The Class of 1959 Teaching Fund for a Career in the Classroom Award, a Cravens’ Grant, and the Independence Foundation Teaching Chair. Ms. Martell Jenkin completed her master’s degree in educational leadership from Columbia University in 2016.

 

Ms. Martell Jenkin serves as our director of equity and inclusion in addition to teaching math and computer science. She lives on campus with her husband and dog, also serving as an advisor to the student alliances, an associate in the Admission Office, a dorm affiliate, and an advisor.