Mindy Kaling will deliver the 2018 commencement speech at Dartmouth College
Kaling graduated from Dartmouth College in 2001.
Cambridge native Mindy Kaling will return to New England this spring: On June 10, the actress will deliver the 2018 commencement address at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, the college announced Wednesday.
We’re excited to welcome back one of our very own @dartmouthalumni to deliver this year’s commencement address to the #Dartmouth18s. See you soon, @mindykaling! 👋 https://t.co/FhPFHVN19T pic.twitter.com/uRtkmzwW1n
— Dartmouth 🌲 (@dartmouth) April 4, 2018
Kaling, a 2001 graduate of Dartmouth, portrayed Kelly Kapoor on the Emmy-winning series “The Office,” and also served as a director, producer, and Emmy-nominated writer on the show. In 2012, Kaling created and began starring in “The Mindy Project,” a comedy series that ran for six seasons. She is a New York Times best-selling author of the books “Why Not Me?” and “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns).”
While studying theater at Dartmouth, Kaling won the Eleanor Frost Playwriting Contest and was part of an improv group called Dog Day Players and an all-female a capella group called the Rockapellas, according to the college.
You can currently see Kaling in theaters as Mrs. Who in Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” which is an adaptation of the 1962 book by Madeleine L’Engle. She is also executive producing the sitcom “Champions” for NBC.
During a Wednesday appearance on the “Today” show to promote “Champions,” Kaling discussed how much she loves being a mom to her daughter, Katherine, who was born in December.
