Bridgit Mendler graduated from Harvard!
The former Disney Channel student officially graduated from Harvard Law School earlier this week.
Mendler, 31, was seen walking across the stage while wearing a cap and gown in a video shared on social media.
The Good luck Charlie the actress was joined at the ceremony by her 4-year-old son, reports E! News.
In the video, Mendler accepted her diploma and shook hands with two faculty members. While on stage, she and her son — who she adopted in 2022 — paused to wave to someone in the audience before leaving.
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Mendler’s LinkedIn account states that she began attending Harvard in 2021 for a Juris Doctor (JD) degree. At the institution, she was co-president of the Harvard Space Law Society from 2022 to 2023.
The star additionally earned a master’s degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently pursuing a doctorate at the same university.
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Earlier this year, Mendler spoke about her academic studies in a message shared on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“I noticed something confusing about my LinkedIn profile and I want to clarify: I’m 2 months away from my JD and I don’t have a PhD yet,” the “Ready or Not” singer began.
Bridget Mendler.
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“The doctorate is something I started working on in 2020 and was working on it along with my law degree, but when I moved to California last summer and decided we were going to stay on the West Coast for family reasons, that had to be put on hold,” she continued. .
Added Mendler: “I apologize that I really should have updated my linkedin page earlier. I will continue to fight for it, but how it is completed is up to the administration and my principal investigator and what they think is appropriate.”
The Lemonade mouth the actress currently serves as the CEO of Northwood Space, a startup working to create a “data highway between Earth and space.”
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“We’re designing a shared Earth infrastructure from first principles to expand access to space. There’s a lot of work ahead of us, but that’s the fun part,” Mendler wrote in her post.
She co-founded the company, and her husband Griffin Cleverly, whom she married in October 2019, is the startup’s chief technology officer.
Mendler said she developed the idea for the company while spending time with her family during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“While everyone else was making their sourdough starters, we were building antennas out of random crap we could find at Home Depot… and receiving data from [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] satellite,” Mendler told CNBC in February.
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