S. Allen Counter was a neuroscientist and director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, a position he held for more than thirty years. He died in July 2017.
Counter appears in the EFTA document set in a letter from mathematician Jonathan Farley to Epstein, dated 2015, in which Farley cited Counter's praise of his work as a credential while soliciting a donation. The letter demonstrates how Epstein and those seeking his patronage used endorsements from Harvard figures to lend credibility to funding requests. Counter's standing as a prominent Harvard administrator and his public profile, which included a film about his life reportedly in development by Will Smith's production company, made him a useful reference point in Epstein's academic orbit.